NEED HELP! sorting one of my PC's

[Jax]

Hello All,
I have a Packard Bell PC originally with Windows Vista but I upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium. The PC had a virus and so I gave it to a work colleague to sort out. When the machine was returned, the virus was gone but he had installed Windows 7 Professional. This ran OK for a short time before messages were being flagged up stating that the Windows 7 software was not genuine. The PC now keeps crashing and going to blue screen. Is this due to the windows software or is there something more sinister going on? Can I reinstall Windows 7 Home Premium to cure the problem?<br /><br />-- 02 Oct 2012, 20:06 --<br /><br />the problem is solved!

we re-installed windows home premium.

 

[Pvcomputers]

Glad you solved the problem. That would be my bet to do a clean install of Windows Home Prem

 

[sapper]

More than likely you had automatic updates turned on, which would cause a problem if the machine wasn't registered for professional, or you had a pirate copy of pro which had been registered on more than one machine.

Windows updates have got very clever recently, I've found that it will de-register my not so legal copy of Photoshop CS6, because it treats the keygen .dll file as malicious

 

[madma]

Blue screen usually suggests that new hardware has been installed or removed corrupting the system. A reformat would fix it though.
You can use a windows loader to make the windows 7 genuine and will also allow you to use windows updates.

 

[Venom]

What do you mean "make it genuine"?.

 

[madma]

It installs a licence that allows updates and make the version legit. Works with all version of windows 7.

 

[Venom]

sounds illegal, so what your saying is, you legally buy a license from microsoft for windows.?