All of a sudden W7 Ultimate is not genuine ?

Thanks. I'll look into it. I have a legit copy of Vista [yikes] that I'll
load if it shuts down. I'll see about calling MS Monday.

Over a year ago I experienced this sort of thing at work on our secure network. IT pushed down a set of recent Microsoft updates to all the machines on the network and some of them didn't survive. By that I mean, some of the machines started saying their Windows installation was no longer genuine, yet nothing else seemed wrong. Unfortunately, when Microsoft was told of this, they said IT would have to re-install Windows on the effected machines. There was no other cure.

So it may be you need to do that too.

I'm sure your Windows is truly genuine, it's just been buggered by a botched update or even a virus.

Bye.

You know that's odd that you should mention this, as I had downloaded I believe
2 or 5 updates this morning. I have it set up so I can see what is going to load,
but I think today I just went and loaded them. I wonder if one or might of had
something to do with this...?

I had a similar prob on one of my desktops with W7 Pro when the SP1 package
first came out. Oh boy, did THAT ever do a number on my pc. I had to do a fresh
install after a reformat because for whatever reason, with that SP1 pack and the
updates that followed a few days later, my pc was so slow, I could get a pot of
coffee going before it would load some pages and getting on the net was just a
wreck.

After a fresh install and holding off the SP1 pack after a couple months of it coming out,
I loaded it and all was ok. I'll look at the update history and see what was loaded.

Thanks for the reminder. Thanks all for your inputs.

Was the DVD genuine? Most of the fakes have a holographic label stuck to a DVD instead of the burned in holographic of a genuine disc. You can feel a ridge on the DVD and can pick at the label with a fingernail with the fakes.

Another way to tell is the UPC label. Most of the fakes will say "Made in USA".

^ No the label on top of the plastic states "made in Puerto Rico" but sure enough,
the label is a sticker and not burned in. So I'll look at my other os discs that do work
and go from there. Yea it way too good of a deal, but I wonder why it took so long for
MS to see it non genuine, and why did I not have any trouble getting the key validated
back in June ?

I'll have to load a Vista I have until things get right I guess, but first I'm going to try a reformat
and fresh install. I don't have much on here and all my stuff is backed up to an external, so we'll
see..

Wow..Just checked my other W7 Pro disc and the Vista disc and sure enough the holo
is burned into the cd unlike the W7 Ult which has a very life like holo sticker and not
burned it. Thanks very much for the heads up on this sticker deal. Very enlightening.

n2gc said:

Yea it way too good of a deal, but I wonder why it took so long for MS to see it non genuine, and why did I not have any trouble getting the key validated back in June ?

Logicearth says it best: "You probably bought a copy that had a TechNet key, which is not transferable under any circumstance. This is a very common scam on ebay. It does usually take a bit of time before Microsoft find and deactivate TechNet keys that have been improperly used."

And that's what the eBay scammers rely on. They know it will take time to show up and it's beyond the time you can file a claim or leave feedback on eBay. The seller has probably changed IDs by now but I would still file a claim with eBay. It's long been known that there are a lot of fake Windows 7 Ultimate copies being sold on eBay. Personally, I would NEVER buy software off eBay. The "price fixing" by Microsoft only allows certain sales and discounts. When a below MS reseller cost offer shows up, 99.99% of the time it's a scam.

Run this tool, click on Continue, click Copy, paste into notepad and upload the txt file here.

go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012

Thank you all for your inputs and replies. It has been very enlightening.
I'll follow the steps and read the links posted. Feel like a darn fool, and
it's been expensive lesson, but a lesson well learned.