Vista - How is my windows not genuine?

I bought an HP Pavilion a1737c. Now today, my memory kept running out so my
computer kept turning off. Now I'm trying to log back in and it tells me my
Windows Vista isn't genuine. I have reformatted once with the HP Recovery
discs I was sent. They do not have a serial number. What am I supposed to do?

Make sure your installed version of Windows Vista is activated.
Follow this procedure:

You can get started with phone activation by typing "slui.exe 4"
(w/o the quotes) in the Start Search box in the Start Menu and pressing Enter.
The phone activation process takes about 6 minutes.

Note: The "Start Search" box is located right above the Vista blue start button
when you click on it.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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"Bharneck" wrote:

I bought an HP Pavilion a1737c. Now today, my memory kept running out so my
computer kept turning off. Now I'm trying to log back in and it tells me my
Windows Vista isn't genuine. I have reformatted once with the HP Recovery
discs I was sent. They do not have a serial number. What am I supposed to do?

Hi Alias,

I tried it for about a year, and gave up. It's absolutely horrible.
The user interface was written by a non-human apparently.
The name pretty much describes the UI it provides. I guess
that is where the name came from. Why would anyone want
to open up N windows anytime they open an app, and then
have to wait forever for them to come up, only to get an app
this is a pita to use?

-- Larry Maturo


"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.li> wrote in message
news:%23$kDz$G0HHA.4916@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Bharneck wrote:
>> Can't run Photoshop. Otherwise I would be on Ubuntu in a heartbeat.
>
> Have you tried GIMP?
>
> Alias
>>
>> "Ed Forsythe" wrote:
>>
>>> *And* you'll save on software costs because it only runs 2% of the
>>> software available for PCs. ;-))
>>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.li> wrote in message
>>> news:ubwkiAG0HHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>> Bharneck wrote:
>>>>> I bought an HP Pavilion a1737c. Now today, my memory kept running out
>>>>> so my computer kept turning off. Now I'm trying to log back in and it
>>>>> tells me my Windows Vista isn't genuine. I have reformatted once with
>>>>> the HP Recovery discs I was sent. They do not have a serial number.
>>>>> What am I supposed to do?
>>>> Tired of having your computer controlled by Redmond? Check out Ubuntu
>>>> at http://www.ubuntu.com/ It's free, needs no anti virus or anti
>>>> malware programs, updates *everything* on your computer so you don't
>>>> have to be going round getting a Java update here and a Flash update
>>>> there. No activating. No getting "genuine" and, best of all, it's FREE!
>>>>
>>>> Alias
>>>
>>>

Chat online with an HP support technician:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/contact/chat_1.html

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/



"Bharneck" wrote:

> I've gone through two people and now they want me to talk to people who want
> to charge to help me! What do I do! I just need to activate! And I don't want
> to talk to people across the world thta I can't understand to do that!
>
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Windows Vista must be properly activated before it
> > can pass as "genuine".
> >
> > --
> > Carey Frisch
> > Microsoft MVP
> > Windows - Shell/User
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Â*-----
> >
> > "Alias" wrote:
> >
> > Peter Foldes wrote:
> > > Use the phone activation and follow Carey's excellent advice. Takes a couple of minutes and you are on your way after.
> > >
> >
> > Now one calls activation for a WGA problem? Since when?
> >
> > Alias
> >
> >