Remove Windows 7 not Genuine

I recently encountered a friend of mine with the message "Your copy of Windows 7 is not genuine". Now, this is no big deal right. I mean, you just get a message, your screen becomes black with no screensaver, right! But guys all of you are thinking "What happened?" or "How did I get this?"

It's simple, you just downloaded and installed an update. Windows update contains among them one update that checks for the authenticity of your copy of Windows. There are some websites that do the same, so be very careful.

You can remove it by:

• Click Start Button.
• Among the programs listed, right click cmd and select Run as administrator
• Now type SLMGR -REARM (Yep! type it as is, no changes) and press Enter
• You get a pop telling you to restart the system.
  
• Press OK and restart the system

This just removed the annoying message. Now to reactivate your Windows key:

• Click Start Button
• In Start Search Box, type cmd
• Among the programs listed, right click cmd and select Run as administrator
• Now type SLMGR -ato and press Enter
• If successful, you get a pop telling Windows key is activated.
• Press OK and you're done.

If that doesn't fix it, then simply:

• Click Start Button
• Click Control Panel
• Click Windows Update
• Click View Installed Updates (It's at the bottom left)
• Uninstall update KB971033

Now, the methods written up top are manual. You have to do it yourself. But, if you feel that something may go wrong, I may screw up!, yada yada... .Then there is one more method.

Go to any search on the internet and search for RemoveWAT. It's a small utility to fix this issue. But, a point to note: Most antiviruses will tell you that it's a virus. Need not worry, I mean seriously, look at the type, it says HackerTool. Simply, stop the antivirus and run it or you can add as an exception.

Thanks for reading and as always please comment.