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Sent to Dublin woes.
Yesterday afternoon I started up my principle W7 pc and sent some feedback for an Ebay purchase and everything was hunky-dory. At dinnertime I shut down and about one hour later I switched back on and got the Windows requires reactivating/ not genuine message with a black background. Error code ox c004f200. My W7 Ultimate retail pack was purchased around early 2010 and was fully sealed and had both DVD's with holograms on both sides. This copy of Windows has been on at least two motherboards and was last clean installed about one year ago (ssd). It has always been kept fully up to date. It took at least five attempts to activate before I managed to talk to a human being after going round in circles in Microsoft's web sites. The only help he could give me was to direct me to the howtotell site. After filling in the counterfeit software form I have had to send my genuine software to Microsoft at Dublin for evaluation. If I am lucky I may be sent a replacement. Microsoft really have you over a barrel when it comes to problems like these and I am very fortunate that I am not relying on that pc. This tale of woe is coming to readers via Windows 8 pro.