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HP apparently doesn't like my Win 7
I got in a refurbished HP computer and immediately upgraded it from Win 10 to Win 7 on a new hard drive. The OS is properly installed, keyed and validated from an original 7 Pro 64 bit OEM disk. Nevertheless I get a popup telling me that "this computer is not running genuine Windows." But, of course it is. I've read through and tried everything I find on the internet to resolve this. Nothing works.
My conclusion is that the computer firmware is not recognizing the OS as one provided by HP and causing the popup. Nothing I can do about the firmware. But I'm wondering if there might be somewhere in Win 7 that receives such a message from the computer that I can disable. Any Ideas?