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Hi-jack Registration Key
My son had something happen on his PC. His background went black but icons, task bar, etc were still showing and a message box came up to ask him to verify his registration. He's had Windows 7 for about 5 months now and it was activated when it was installed. I wasn't home at the time to see the screen but he typed his registration number. This seemed like strange behavior.
Is it possible some software was hi-jacking his registration number to be used on some pirated windows 7 disk?
The next day his PC booted properly and then he uninstalled software called DIVX. After it rebooted his PC no longer worked. It doesn't even load. It goes pass POST and then a dark screen and then stops. It doesn't shut off.
I'm trying to determine if it was the registration or the DIVX that may have caused the problem.