I knew that the copy of Windows was, in fact, genuine as I had purchased it, installed it and activated it myself just over 12 months ago!
The Network Manager was going over that way that evening and went and took a look at it.
I did not know at the time, as the client was not all that clear about it, but it was a random thing. Sometimes it booted ok, other times it gave the warning.
The Network Manager found no issue and went on his merry way, the PC booted fine for him.
About an hour later I had a call to tell me that it is once again doing the same thing and giving a non genuine warning.
I picked up the PC and brought it back to the workshop for further investigation.
I rebooted a couple of times, with no issue and the 4th time it happened again, a black screen with the warning in the bottom right of the screen. It looked something, but not exactly, like this...
The back screen without the photo that is usually there, with the warning. When I did a quick bit of research on this i found that this is not an isolated incident and there have recently been quite a number of these.
It seems that something is corrupting the registry files associated with the licence. If you check the MS website for their solution you may end up a little jittery as it involves a lot of manual registry editing.
These pesky registry keys must be straightened out, however.
The command required to do this is slmgr -rearm in an administrator level command prompt window.
This YouTube video is a good step by step instruction.
But if you are in any doubt about what you are doing consult a professional.
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