Windows Genuine Toll Says is bad but its Good
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Windy2007,
Right now, your Fujitsu 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.
If you search the forum for the part of the VLK reported by the mgadiag utility, PTW2H-VK6CX-TT738, you will see that two other posters have submitted reports with that same blocked VLK.
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 Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage 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. You may want to consider participating in the Office Genuine Offer program that provides well-discounted copies of Office to those like you who have been victims of Office piracy. In any case, please uninstall the nongenuine installation of Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage as soon as possible.
The fact that you have a Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity for Windows XP Professional affixed to the bottom of the Fujitsu computer indicates that there is a strong liklihood that your laptop is still licensed to run XP Pro.
Please click on this link to download the Product Key Updater Utility which is designed to "genuine-ize" nongenuine installation of XP using the genuine Product Key that is displayed on the genuine COA on the laptop: http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/selfhelp/pkuinstructions.aspx
If the nongenuine installation of XP is not too "hacked and cracked" the utility should be able to genuine-ize it. If you have antivirus, antispyware, or firewall programs installed, please make sure that these programs are set to allow the Updater to have full access to the internet so it can do its thing.
Please post back to tell us if it worked for you.
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Windy2007,
Right now, your Fujitsu 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.
If you search the forum for the part of the VLK reported by the mgadiag utility, PTW2H-VK6CX-TT738, you will see that two other posters have submitted reports with that same blocked VLK.
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 Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage 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. You may want to consider participating in the Office Genuine Offer program that provides well-discounted copies of Office to those like you who have been victims of Office piracy. In any case, please uninstall the nongenuine installation of Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage as soon as possible.
The fact that you have a Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity for Windows XP Professional affixed to the bottom of the Fujitsu computer indicates that there is a strong liklihood that your laptop is still licensed to run XP Pro.
Please click on this link to download the Product Key Updater Utility which is designed to "genuine-ize" nongenuine installation of XP using the genuine Product Key that is displayed on the genuine COA on the laptop: http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/selfhelp/pkuinstructions.aspx
If the nongenuine installation of XP is not too "hacked and cracked" the utility should be able to genuine-ize it. If you have antivirus, antispyware, or firewall programs installed, please make sure that these programs are set to allow the Updater to have full access to the internet so it can do its thing.
Please post back to tell us if it worked for you.
