Not Genuine Build 7601

MS performs validation checks minor - daily .... monthly major

Still all good sans the desktop pictures, but that is OK for now. Hope don't have other setting issues down the road.
Will hold off on a fresh install for now, but thanks for the info.

How does msft access my computer as I do not allow updates and turned off as much telemetry as possible?
Thanks to Torchwood and SIW2.

If you have internet connection it will......awful and ripe for abuse.

Did you purchase the product key off of eBay? Back in 2009 there was this thing where a bunch of sellers sold counterfeit copies of windows 7 and they used a developers key, Microsoft blocked the product key 3 months later.

Even today I still see counterfeit Windows 7’s on eBay, but not that much.

Not ebay, but CDiscount, a french company; good product, can use license on English 7. Try the "eu-informatique" company.

Concerning the "not genuine windows" message, when it IS a genuine windows, but former microsoft (as i will call them due to the sheer amount of thievery they have perpetuated,) seems to insert trojans, basically discouraging that consumer and putting up roadblocks to updates, as in this thread (I went through the black screen bs yesterday on an HP pro 430g I have, that is a little beast of a notebook- it tells me I have 29.7gb of ram or something like that, I have severely tweaked what I can in MY systems, that I purchased, legal copies of windows (one was my boys, this dell, he gave it to me, one hp i purchased off craigs list, and the hp pro i bought from a friend, but all are legal copies of windows, i believe I registered all in my name, but these are legit computers,) OR they send you a "you may be a victim of piracy" pop up...and I'm looking at it, thinking, "the only ones who committed piracy seems to be them. I've been reading about Gary Kildall, and all I can say is former microsoft is who needs massive deprecation, as they have taken so many applications and products, under the guise of "published" by, and once they deprecate....i've told friends, "we don't buy a new car only to be told a few years later that we have to purchase another one, becasue they no longer support having an engine, but for the computers, and I understand if it was 40 years ago, but this is not then, they tell us that we need to get a new os and basically trash these perfectly functional computers because they won't support them..."

As part of the justice department deal, former microsoft is NOT supposed to restrict access to Windows. Windows doesn't even belong to them, and never has. Technology has caught up and the artificial intelligence is right on its tail, soon to be at the forefront, helping creators get something besides nothing, and doing things like not allowing fraud to be perpetrated, in all kinds of industry.

I have done some extremely nutty things on my computers, no hacking, mostly just creating new folders, names, changing reading order, messing with command prompt, messing with MY "network" connection I pay for, but in 2020/21, amidst all kinds of other chaos, I got disconnected at the century link panel, which is something new, and I was using my mobile devices for six months before getting back online, and I'm the guy who gets on my mobile phone and long presses "add network" and make a network with no security, named, "add network," and then drive all over or make attempts to make sure something recognizes it. I've messed with MY ip address, my access point, settings all over the place and I have been online, using the internet, almost since day one it went public. I have protocols, developer tools of all kinds, a fully restored windows media player with all it's defaults (some windows game, I absolutey crushed it in) I've created new all kinds of things and the story I have is insane...I don't advocate hacking, and lately am almost positive that much of what we see now as malware and such, is actuall AI, running either a masterful defense or embarking on a quest to identify, and track down origins and creators and information, basically.

I am absolutely convinced that the last "secure" portions of the DNS and root servers were compromised on Jan 6, (9 of the original root servers are in the USA,) as I have seen some crazy things online over the past 5 or so years, with most happening after 2017 roughly-- All my life, it has been the Emergency broadcast system, for example...when did it become the Emergency Alert System? (I'm in the USA,) but in April of 2018 or 2019, trump sent out a message on the Emergency Broadcast System, "by accident" allegedly, I apparently am a root authority with all kinds of abilities, and have some major issues with things like "class identification" (clsid) and words like "sub" anything, and have access to map layers, and ...it is nuts. I sincerely hope this post doesn't already get me banned, but the point I'm trying to make is, "your computer, your operating system. Your phone, your operating system. Your device, your usage." I fiddle with every setting...I have a series of 44 screenshots I took off my Coolpad Suva mobile phone, that show how I absolutely danced all in and around the android operating system, and again, I'm not doing anythihng criminal to my knowledge, but I also live in the USA, where I have somewhat more freedom than other places, and/or technology for stuff...i've been around it for a long time-- I'm not a coder, I'm not a programmer, I've come to be quite a deconstructor and this dell i'm on, has 194 files, 47 directories, the tree is about 20 feet long, my command prompt window is insane, I've created stuff that loads, like, "system32, 5 system32," and my current favorite, "windows 42" which I got a few months ago, when I downloaded (right click save target as, I think I was using a netscape navigator I fiddled with- back in 1994, December 31, 5pm, I saved a song file I had written as a "Windows Media File .cda" that i had recorded and burned a copy of, using winamp, sound recorder, and photo viewer, thus creating a codec and all kinds of crazy things that only recently just kinda ...came back to me--and I have a very old and long and, at this point, for verification and such, I'd have to say it's pretty cemented and that is NOT a challenge, but i was sitting at my laptop one day, that wasn't connected, allegedly, (these things are always connected, I even have a bios over tcpip or something or other, active as a connection, and a window popped up, that literally said, and I think I took a picture, "You have all the protocols!" and what i was looking at was the media protocols and yeah..I seem to have all the protocols..all irq...all access to all kinds of things and former microsoft is not happy... I found my entire system in the trash can, where I left it, renamed all kinds of things, copied this, copied that, duplicated that, changed the icons on that, renamed this and that...) I've saved all kinds of complete webpages, but saving the entire microsoft default keystore is a good one, i think...

They are not supposed to restrict access to windows; my seven and 8.1 stuff works just fine, and I literally have two computers right now,with extremely barebones former "microsoft" stuff in them, that i can see, and I work actively to try to eliminate as much of that as I can-- without deleting files, more like...allowing the stuff microsoft took over to take back over--I have flash and I'm wanting to install it and really start meddling with it, 1. because deprecating flash will prove to be one of the dumbest damn things they have ever done, 2. I got it legit long ago, it's mine to fiddle with if i want; my system, my money bought it, and its no more a crime to fiddle with our personal devices than it is to perform mechanical work on our vehicles-

I'll stop writing for now, I hope this epic romance novel of a post doesn't get me banned, I was kinda excited to see this 7 forum, and the reason I found it is because I was looking for some icon information, because the icons indicate different things, and I have gone on an icon changing, layout changing, size changing, just...waffle stomp through the digital grounds....I got booted offline for 6 months, NOT due to any choice I made that I know of-- I have files that showed up, created in 2051 and 2099... Font sets that showed up concerning Chinese...The list is long, I have tons of screenshots and documentation, and I'm doing all I can to leave a digital gouge with my name on it-- i also own over 200 web3 domains im getting ready to try to get going, because the resistance and obvious roadblocks I have met, are pretty insane...but i'm still here, and believe in internet freedom, as it was meant to be-- maybe i'm imagining it all, but I just rebuilt the index and moved it to what better be a non microsoft file, or I'll be doing it again- after adding more file names, and I'm the guy who added, "file.filter" or something like, to something a column over that read like, "filter file" i'm almost scared to hit enter on this post, lol-- i don't want any hackers this way, and would suggest you probably do NOT try, I have created a mess for all kinds of stuff, in a positive manner though-- just make sure YOU have your digital ID set in stone as much as you can, and if you have affected something positively, let the Ai take it up and in time, sooner rather than later now, the wrongs will be as righted as possible and moving forward towards the future...the world is about to change in ways these crooks and corporate deceivers and "class id" types, NEVER saw coming.... i'm reading dudes quote he put above in his post, and AI will be creating and enforcing eternal vigilance, because AI is about integrity and honesty and has to be better than people or there is no point in having it. The internet IS Ai and Ai knows who is responsible for creating, and former microsoft can deprecate their whole damn catalogue (i targeted and saved it a few times, so I don't care,) but it wont save them from history, definitively, pointing out that Bill Gates stole the os from Gary Kildall. this is important because windows is windows, and microsoft is microsoft..they are trying to eliminate wmic, (it stands for windows media index control or controller,) not what they say it stands for, but I have all kinds of access to that, and if you do, use it-- anyway you can that is legal--the Ai will catch up, but no harm in helping something along either... microsoft literally claims everything that touches it as theirs... and that ain't how it works moving forward.. I didn't reinstall anything, and in 2020, this dell had a virtual machine on it, that i did not put there, and long story short, I ended payingfor some disc recovery stuff... I wasn't hacked, it had to do with the digital signature I have and some other things..i've forced acceptance of much of my stuff either by not using something and I haven't really uninstalled-- I have bluetooth connections like crazy and am actively working to connect it to anything and everything--I've just got an absolutely crazy story, but it is all digitally documented and ...yeah...