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    Windows Activation Problem

    As it says, I've been having a problem with my Windows 7 copy saying I need to activate it and make sure it's Genuine. Just started doing this last week after being fine for about a year.
    Pirated copy that was activated when it was put on my PC.
    Error that keeps coming up when I put in a Key that's supposed to work with it is: 0xC004E003 The Software Licensing Service reported that the evaluation failed.

    Anyone have any ideas?

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    So.. your pirated copy key isn't working..... hmmm

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    Did you run windows update and download everything without reading the descriptions?

    Reformat and pay attention this time.

    Also, properly pirated win7 doesn't involve a key at all.

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    Yeah, one of the updates you downloaded recognized that you had a pirated copy and de-licensed your OS. Back to square one.

    Honestly, I understand why people pirate stuff, but pirating Windows is silly. It's insecure enough before you pirate it and fall behind on security updates. My recommendation would be to either bite the bullet and buy a license or just use Ubuntu.

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    There's only one update that fucks up pirated installs, and it says right in the description that that's what it does. Every other update works fine.

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    I didn't download any updates and I have the automatic Updates turned off.

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    Try using the windows loader from this site? http://forums.mydigitallife.info/thr...se-information

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    Had no idea that existed, thanks Raz.
    And sicne it's pointless to start another thread, PoL Keeps crashing and saying it's the Main .dll that's causing the crash. Any ideas?

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    If you didn't download any Windows updates, it's a common glitch with Windows 7. Unfortunately, the only way that I've seen this issue taken care of at work is calling Microsoft and spending about 10-15min. with them on the phone but it's not going to work in your case obviously.

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    If you want a cheap way to get W7 Pro, Microsoft has Windows 7 Pro Upgrade for $30 for students (.edu address). http://www.microsoft.com/student/en/...w/default.aspx

    When I used my W7 Pro Upgrade key, it allowed me to just do a clean install, so I'm pretty certain you will not need a previous version of Windows installed.

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    Recently I've installed windows 7 on a pc here at work, and I wasn't able to activate it (complaining that I didn't upgrade - was a clean installation). It was a registry value that I had to change... just google it if you run into this problem. Just FYI.

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    You could always do what I have done before... Use an OEM(dell,HP,Gateway,etc) disk to install, and when it says you need to activate it, call windows, tell them you bought a *insert brand of oem disk you used here*, had a bad hard drive, and used the recovery disk, now you are having this problem. I have gotten legit windows keys for XP/Vista/Win7 this method. It's so easy, and the indians don't give a rats ass, so they just email you a key.

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