Recent content by Dealea86

It's Windows 7 Home Premium OA, so we're good there. But if for some reason it doesn't work, we have an old copy of XP Pro that we can use - assuming we can find drivers that work with XP.

If I'd known what I was looking for in the beginning (first time looking at a MGADiag), I would have noticed that the product key in the diagnostic report was different from the one on the back of the laptop. And it also says windows 7 ultimate, and the sticker on the back says windows 7 home...

I called the help desk. The lady there had me run through the usual try-to-activate stuff, then verified the product key on the bottom of my laptop, and said she would transfer me to the virus and malware dept (??). There, I spoke with a lady who had me run through the same activation stuff...

Please someone help me with this. I've been on the phone with both Microsoft and HP. Both parties agree that my copy is genuine, but they say they can do anything to fix it. The only "solution" I've been given is to order a new recovery disk. I don't see how that would help, seeing as it...

My mother-in-law gave us her laptop this year for Christmas. It's about a year old, an HP G60, and it worked fine for her before she gave it to us. Now, seemingly out of nowhere, we're getting messages that windows 7 isn't genuine and that we might be victims of software fraud. There is a COA...

My laptop was bought from a major online electronics seller, but it was bought refurbished. I assume that still means a factory install, but just in case I ran SFC. No problems. I can only think of two programs that might have compatability issues. One is an old game (came out in 2003-ish)...

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit on an ASUS 501j laptop with an intel pentium dual core processor. I bought the laptop just over a week ago, and it had a clean install of Windows 7. Every now and then (I haven't worked out a pattern yet), my background will disappear and be replaced with a generic...