illegal software

i have "windows trust" installed on my laptop wish is a modified and not legal version of windows XP... now i want to stop using windows illegaly so i want to download ubuntu and install it... but is it illegal to do that using windows?? i mean downloading and burning ubuntu to a dvd doing all...

Hi everyone I recently blown my hp pavilion slimline pc so I dusted the old laptop off to descover a copied version of windows 7 had been put on after I had purchased a online windows 8 activation key in October last year when they did the cheap deal. Unfortunately I lent the laptop out earlier...

Ok I have a not so legit copy of windows vista ultimate x64 on my desktop and want to upgrade to windows 7. If i buy a windows 7 upgrade disk from microsoft and upgrade from my non-legit copy of vista, will my new windows 7 be non-legit as i have upgraded from a illegal copy of vista, or would i...

let me start by saying I didn't know this was an illegal app or something, I simply had a problem with updates. Whenever i would run update, it would detect two updates and then often would fail downloading and installing one or two and rarely would install them and then restart and the update...

A "victim of illegal software" *you may remove* *feel free to remove this thread, it failed*