Phone activation called me a pirate :D

[mischievousape]

omg...I keep going to System & Security to look at where it says "Windows Is Activated"

 

[Tews]

Thats good news indeed...

 

[Dwarf]

Excellent news. I'm pleased that you have resolved this situation.

 

[scoopeeedoo]

I was attentively following your "saga" and i really enjoy this happy end!
Well done for the little trap at the store!!!

 

[Richardc269]

Congratulations on a job well done. Glad it works for you now.

 

[mischievousape]

Aw thanks everyone This is such a friendly forum

I would still love to know exactly why this went wrong to be honest, but I doubt I will ever really know for sure. From the look on the faces of the people in the store they looked very confused at the whole situation, but who really knows what happened

 

[Richardc269]

I think maybe someone put the wrong key in it.

Orrr, someone replaced the original with another one. Someone might have opened the box, brought a business type serial, and took out the one you bought. Could be it, I doubt it though. But I guess you never will know. It sounded to me like the store was trying to put you through a circle and just didn't really care if you got the wrong serial number, and wanted blame for it. Typical store in the U.S, really.

Reminds me of a CompUSA store in my area went out of business in '08. And CompUSA had to close 100 of their stores in LA because they weren't making enough money. They made the prices higher than the other places, and didn't give out enough discount deals, so not many people went to the stores. They really were money suckers, that's for sure.

Anyway, not meaning to get off-track, but I hope your computer works fine in the near future.

My own computer had it's own problem with the update feature for a good month or more, and it finally fixed itself a few weeks ago. Now I can download updates once more. I honestly have no idea why the computer suddenly wanted to fix the auto-update feature through the System Restore one day. It fixed my Windows Update feature, but also uninstalled one of my games I installed the day before. lol. Kinda sucks seeing as I had to re-download the game and reinstall it. Oh well.

 

[Petey7]

I'm glad to hear everything worked out in the end and you didn't have to spend more money then you should have had to. As rare as it is, sometimes one-time flukes do happen. I would be proud if I were you that a 1 in billion chance of happening event happened to you. Not everyone can say that.

 

[HQuest]

I saw a couple times news about legal software printed in local, authorized disc presses, which unfortunately came with misplaced labels, which ended up exactly as the OP states. Discs were 100% legal, keys were 100% legal, but they were both in the wrong boxes.

Definitively a manufacturing issue -- their internal warehouse supply teams failed badly.

 

[gregrocker]

Good work.

When you have Win7 set up as you like be sure to save a Win7 Backup Image externally so you never have to reinstall again to this machine - just reimage the HD or replacement using DVD Repair console and stored image.

Your retail Win7 can also migrate to the machine of your choice for life. So safeguard the key and back up DVD.

 

[thefabe]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I went back to the store again and demanded to speak to the manager who again said that I had to contact Microsoft. So I phoned them from my mobile while he was there and then put them onto speaker as they confirmed that the key was not a proper licence for a home user and to tell the store that they have sold a wrong licence, and they would send a certificate confirming that.

I also told him about my complaint to Trading Standards (and lied saying they think that the store might be deliberately selling illegal software) and will be investigating for that.

The manager then decided to give me a different copy and to take it up with MS through their wholesaler. I just put the new code in AND IT WORKS

I took some pictures of the bad disk and packaging but I don't know howto attach them on here. It looks 100% identical to the one I have replaced it with. So weird.

FYI to attach to post just use the paper clip>browse to file or picture>upload and attach

 

[CarlTR6]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I went back to the store again and demanded to speak to the manager who again said that I had to contact Microsoft. So I phoned them from my mobile while he was there and then put them onto speaker as they confirmed that the key was not a proper licence for a home user and to tell the store that they have sold a wrong licence, and they would send a certificate confirming that.

I also told him about my complaint to Trading Standards (and lied saying they think that the store might be deliberately selling illegal software) and will be investigating for that.

The manager then decided to give me a different copy and to take it up with MS through their wholesaler. I just put the new code in AND IT WORKS

I took some pictures of the bad disk and packaging but I don't know howto attach them on here. It looks 100% identical to the one I have replaced it with. So weird.

I am so glad you got the problem resolved without having to pay more money. Good work and good persistence.

 

[johng]

great read, pity you had to jump through so many hoops to get a result though. i guess thats one of the resulst of software piracy, everybody is suspicious of anythign not quite kosher and simply assume you're a crook rather than look at the facts!
i had to reinstall my copy of windows 7 within a week of first activating and lost count of the times i was asked if it ws installed on more than one computer, is this the only copy you will be installing, are there any other copies etc etc!

 

[chev65]

It think the problem may have been that to legally use a volume license you have to upgrade from an older OP system. Not to mention the requirement for having 5 other upgraded PC's in the network was not met.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/business/how-to-buy.aspx

I won't get into the fact that clearly the Cd was mislabled and in the wrong box to begin with.

Windows licenses available through Volume Licensing are upgrade-only licenses

They do not replace purchasing the initial Windows licenses for software that comes pre-installed on new PCs. Each desktop that runs the Windows 7 upgrade must first be licensed to run one of the qualifying operating systems—otherwise the PC will not have a valid, legal Windows license.