Windows 7 spontaneously deactivates??

[Doomer]

Had this happen today. For some reason Win 7 said it was an illegal copy on boot up. Go into control panel -> system and it said windows wasn't activated. I click on "activate now" and it activates successfully and the desktop message disappears. wtf is up with that????

Scanned for viruses and didn't find any.

 

[stinger608]

Where did you get the windows 7 copy from?

 

[ViRGE]

And have you made any hardware changes lately?

 

[Captante]

Had this happen once simply because I disabled/re-enabled a network adapter several times, or at least that's what appeared to cause it.

Re-activating was easy though.

 

[Doomer]

Got it from Newegg. It's legit. even came with a COA.

Nothing changed that could have triggered deactivation, not even a SW install. Absolutely no HW changes.

What's got me puzzled is that it said this copy is illegitimate (or something to that effect) and yet it reactivated without a hitch.

 

[denis280]

Did it to me once.never bother with it

 

[Matt1970]

I have seen it happen a few times. A couple of them were 30 days after a fresh install using a COA that showed as activated after installing. I figured it was just a glitch with the 30 day trial thing.

 

[Mem]

Had this happen once simply because I disabled/re-enabled a network adapter several times, or at least that's what appeared to cause it.

Re-activating was easy though.

I had this happen on Vista ages ago,when I phoned Microsoft they said disable network connection ie unplug router cable , wait a few minutes then renable it,worked back then.