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Thanks. As I said at the beginning I was only wondering out of curiosity what they would charge for a key, and although the black screen was a bit of a pain saying this is not a genuine version there was still no problem overall.
However what I did find was a website that said it could remove "this is not a genuine version" which sounded interesting so gave it a try and it worked fine so everything is now solved. I can't find its URL but I did copy out the instructions....
- Go to start menu
- Search “cmd” in the search tab, right click it
- Select “Run as Administrator” (this will run the command prompt with administrator privileges)
- A page with a black background, will popup; Type SLMGR -REARM and then press enter. (SLMGR is a tool which manages Windows software license. REARM is a command which resets license status of the machine.)
- You will see a window which displays the following text “Command completed successfully. Please restart the system for the changes to take effect”. Press “okay”.
- Restart your computer, and check to see if the error has been removed or not.
- **If for some reason the “This copy of windows is not genuine” error hasn’t gone away; repeat the same procedure but this time with “SLMGR /REARM” command.
So not at all bad for a non-techie I think though perhaps a tad too much for an 8 year old....