How to fix windows genuine problems?

“This copy of Windows is not genuine”
“You must activate today. Activate Windows now”
“Windows is not genuine; Your computer might not be running a counterfeit copy of Windows. Error code 0x80070005”

Just like me, you may at sometimes receive a message saying that the copy of Windows installed on your PC might not be genuine, or that you might be a victim of counterfeit software. If so, it’s likely that your copy of Windows was not properly activated or is otherwise not genuine; and then you might fail to enjoy some features of Windows or even run the computer properly.

To fix a non genuine Windows, the first thing you should do is to click the notification and follow the steps to either repair Windows or buy genuine Windows. To run the computer with Windows operating system correctly, you should active it with a genuine activation code.

If you have done this, but still receive the “Windows is not genuine” message, it might be caused due to a lack of permissions in the registry key HKU\S-1-5-20. This is because the Network Service account must have full control and read permissions over that registry key; if fail, some annoying non genuine Windows messages will appear. What you should do right now is to edit the permissions to provide the Licensing Service the required permissions.

* Click tart, Run and enter rsop.msc as the command within the box, and press Enter to bring in the Resultant Set of Policy wizard and then open the corresponding Group Policy setting.
* Click the Edit Security button, and then Advanced button.
* Within the Advanced Security Settings for Plug and Play window, click Add and then add the SERVICE account; and then click OK to save it.
* By the way, you still need to select the following permissions in the Allow section and then click OK:

Query template
Query status
Enumerate dependents
Interrogate
User-defined control
Read permissions

* Run gpupdate /force after you apply the previous permissions to the Group Policy setting.
* Verify that the appropriate permissions are applied with the command “sc sdshow plugplay” afterward.

Sometimes, an incorrect setting within the Windows registry can also bring in the non genuine Windows message. After the above steps, you should change the default registry permissions. After opening the Registry Editor, locate the key HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20, and select Permissions; select the NETWORK SERVICE and Grant Full Control and Read permissions…

Do remember to be careful enough when editing the registry keys so as to get the computer run properly. Without the registry, all computers would not run, simply because it’s a database that used to store hardware, operating system software, personal settings and configurations. If a needed entry was mis-removed or lost, the computer will start to perform abnormally. To fix non genuine Windows as well as maintain stable PC running, it is good to run a registry cleaning utility to help you. Such tool usually offers great deal of assistance in fixing registry errors as well as highly optimizing PC performance.

Now, you can run the computer properly without frequent non genuine Windows messages anymore. Once more, whenever the computer displays such an error message or not, it is best that you can run a registry repair tool at regular basic to make it perform correctly all the time.