Troubled XP User,
Right now, your Medion computer has a Volume Licensing edition of XP Pro installed (Line 8), and that installation was done with a now-blocked Volume Licensing Key (VLK) (Line 2). VLKs are blocked by Microsoft at the request of the original keyholder for such reasons as the key was lost, stolen, compromised, misused, or expired. Also, MS may have blocked the key if it notices a pattern of misuse, ie, more installations of XP using that key than authorized.
As a rule, VL editions of XP should not be sold to individual consumers. Businesses, schools and gov'ts normally use VL editions for flexibility in installing many computers. Also, Volume Licenses for Windows XP are Upgrade licenses ONLY and cannot be used as the original or base license for a new computer.
This is why you were seeing the "software counterfeiting" messages on your computer, because the current installation of XP is an unauthorized installation.
More bad news: Your Office XP Pro installation is showing as Nongenuine (Office status=114 means nongenuine). If this comes as a surprise to you, please go back to where you purchased the installed copy of Office and let them know that it is a counterfeit copy and that you demand the genuine copy that you paid for, or a refund. In any case, please uninstall the nongenuine installation of Office XP Pro as soon as possible.
The next step in the process is to look on the computer or in the materials that came with your computer to see if you have a Certificate of Authenticity (COA). If you have one, tell us about the COA. Tell us:
1. What edition of Windows XP is it for, Home, Pro, or Media Center, or for another verison of Windows?
2. Does it read "OEM Software" or "OEM Product" in black lettering?
3. Or, does it have the computer manufacturer's name in black lettering? We would expect yours to read "Medion" or something similar.
4. DO NOT post the Product Key.
Not sure what to look for? Click here: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/howtotell/en/coa.mspx
Once you have located the CoA, it will tell you what version and edition of Windows, if any, came preinstalled on the computer. It's very likely that this version and edition of Windows is still licensed to run on the computer. If so, the next task would be for you to contact Medion Computers if possible to acquire a recovery CD kit for your model so that you can use it to replace the nonegnine installation of XP Pro with the original Windows that came with the computer.
