Have to re-activate Windows 7?
 

Today I got up and turned on the pc... left the room... came back to a screen saying I needed to do a system repair.
I went ahead and did the repair (though maybe I shouldn't have), rebooted and all seemed fine.
While messing around online I got a Windows activation popup in the taskbar saying that I had to re-activate.
Clicked on the box and got this...

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...6d3f7b4422.png

Now, the only thing I really did yesterday was activate Windows and mess around with some art programs.
I'm guessing that the repair messed up the activation, but not really sure what exactly happened.

I have had random activation issues with both my PC's running Windows 7. I stick to Vista on my main PC for this reason alone. I have yet to have an unrepairable issue, but it has been an annoyance.

My activation key got messed up as well. I tried typing it in again but it got denied. A LEGIT VALID COPY. I did the automated phone call and followed the steps and it was revalidated again. Nothing hard.

Basically what I did was install a fresh copy of Windows 7 on my Envy 15.

Yep do exactly what bojangles said and that'll clear everything up.

This is a legit copy.
I did a totally clean install too and it's been working fine until today (the day after I activated).
Guess I'll just go ahead and see what happens.
Thanks guys.

that's the problem, I think you have to wait 120 days before reactivate, of course a simple call will fix it

Well it was the first time I had activated and haven't tried a second time.
I got the popup telling me I needed to re-activate, but I usually don't trust popups right away.
Just wanted to confirm that this is something 'normal'.

Was able to re-activate without calling.
First problem with Windows 7 so far...

Are you sure it wasn't the installer and not Windows 7? :ph34r:

I'm not really sure what happened.
First problem happened while it was booting up this morning.
The re-activation popup happened shortly after I did the startup recovery and rebooted.
It's activated now and have done some digging to look for problems.
All seems fine so far.