I have a Dell XPS running a factory installed copy of Windows 7 Pro along with Windows Security Essentials. Earlier on today MSE updated itself with no problems. After about 4 hours my desktop background picture went black and I had to go into personalize to restore the background picture and about 30 minutes it did the same thing all over again. Keep in mind that this has never happened before.
Not sure what to do I decided to shut down and reboot to see if that would fix the problem. Reboot went well until I logged in and I got a window saying that my copy of Windows 7 Pro is NOT genuine and the window also asks me if I want to go genuine and click on the button. So I just closed that window and continued with startup, desktop appears with no background photo, just a black screen again. Then another small popup window appeared saying that I may be a victim of a counterfeit copy. The Properties now say that I must activate today and the little GENUINE label at the bottom right hand is gone. Any ideas? Should I just try to re-enter my original product key. I don’t believe in coincidences and think that Microsoft has done something with the last MSE update.
