2 problems: in need of urgent help.

[Almeidaboo]

So here´s the thing:

Ok, so my Windows XP isn´t a original copy. Now the freaking **** keeps giving me this alerts telling me that I may have been a "victim" of pirate software! Is there a way to put that out?

Second: my MSN messenger won´t connect at all! I try, try and try and it won´t go! I tried re-installing but still no go! Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot!

EDIT: Forget problem 2, it was the system date that was wrong! :/

[DragonBlaze]

Well if the pirate thing won't kill your windows or have any other bad side effects, you can probably just delete that. Try to figure out which process it is. When it pops up, press ctrl + alt + del, go to processes, and look for it. If you can't tell which it is, try closing random ones, when the alert closes, you know you shut off the right thing.

Remember which process it was. Try to search your computer for that file, if you find it, write it down, if not, read the next step.

If your search couldn't find it, download hijack this (search google for it). When the alert comes up again, run hijack this, click on the file, select fix, and it'll be deleted.

If your search found it, download pocket kill box (find it on google). Enter in the adress of the process, select the option 'delete on reboot'. Click the ok button. reboot your computer, and it should be gone.

Note: if you have so many days to get a new windows or something, I wouldn't advise deleting that process as it might cut your deadline short.

[charaman]

I heard MS awas doing this... LOcking down all unauthorized copies of windows...

[Almeidaboo]

The MSN thing is cool, but I can´t figure the Windows thing out...man I´m afraid they´re gonna shut my windows out...

[Razor]

Hold up
is it that thing that happens when you boot up your computer? Cause that happened to me after my computer froze. But...
MY COPY OF WINDOWS IS LEGIT. And it hasn't happened since, so I dunno.

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by Almeidaboo
The MSN thing is cool, but I can´t figure the Windows thing out...man I´m afraid they´re gonna shut my windows out...

Well you could download/get another pirated version of windows. Or maybe.. just maybe.. you could get a real windows program and avoid all of this.

[oooog]

Originally posted by DragonBlaze
Or maybe.. just maybe.. you could get a real windows program and avoid all of this.

Thats crazy talk.

Here's what I would do.  Before attempting to do ANY of this, make sure all the files you want to keep are copied elsewhere, perhaps on disks or other computers.  If in the end, you have to format, at least you kept the files that you need.

If you computer is like mine, going into important files at random could mess up your computer.  A similar incident happened to me once, and I attempted to look for the file causing it in my system.  After a long chain of events, mainly me having to go edit another file that messed up because the first one messed up, I had to format my computer and lost everything.

[Tomi]

Originally posted by DragonBlaze

quote:

Originally posted by Almeidaboo The MSN thing is cool, but I can´t figure the Windows thing out...man I´m afraid they´re gonna shut my windows out...

Well you could download/get another pirated version of windows. Or maybe.. just maybe.. you could get a real windows program and avoid all of this.

Linux?

[Drace]

Originally posted by Tomi

quote:

Originally posted by DragonBlaze quote: Originally posted by Almeidaboo The MSN thing is cool, but I can´t figure the Windows thing out...man I´m afraid they´re gonna shut my windows out... Well you could download/get another pirated version of windows. Or maybe.. just maybe.. you could get a real windows program and avoid all of this.

Linux?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HA!

No...

[Archem]

Linux is a cult and should be treated as such.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/03/05    
But it is a pretty damn fine cult...

[Almeidaboo]

I can´t use Linux, I know nothing about it...There must be some **** I can do man...

I´m gonna receive my paycheck soon, so I´ll buy lotsa CDs and backup everything (I´ll need like, 20 of them :/)

Buying Windows is outta hand, cause it costs like R$ 300,00 O.O. I won´t pay that money in sh!t.

There´s gotta be a way!!

[DragonBlaze]

$300? I can get it for $100 at stores. I'm sure you could buy it from the internet for around that.

[Almeidaboo]

Originally posted by DragonBlaze
$300? I can get it for $100 at stores. I'm sure you could buy it from the internet for around that.

$100 dolars. Multiply that for 3 and you get where I want...