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 Posted - April 02 2011 : 09:25:53
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Question: David asks, "All of a sudden my Windows is saying it's not genuine. It always was before. What's up?"
Answer: Good question, David. Good name, too. The message you're seeing should normally be accompanied by some other symptoms as well, like a black screen, and a computer that shuts itself down after about an hour or so. This can be caused by a number of factors. First, it may be correct. If your Windows didn't come with your computer, or when you bought it, it wasn't still shrink-wrapped, it may be counterfeit. But you got your Windows XP from a legitimate source, so that's not it. Microsoft has a utility you can try. We'll have the link in the show notes eventually. This utility can help you discover what's wrong and why your Windows looks non-genuine. That said, the first thing I would do is disable any antivirus software because I've seen that cause the problem. Check that the date and time on your computer's clock is accurate, or at least close. In particular, check that the calendar isn’t set into the future.
Cool Site: TeamCrossword: This week's cool website is for those of you who like to play games on Facebook, specifically crosswords. Teamcrossword.com is an online crossword game that lets you solve crosswords either alone, or with help from friends you invite. You log in with your Facebook account and then you can start working crossword puzzles. If you need help, you can post a link to the puzzle on your friends' walls, or you can just make a puzzle public and then anyone can join in to help. If you don't see one you want to work on, you might jump in on one of the public puzzles someone else has made available. Or maybe you got a link from a friend to join in on his puzzle. It's free, and if you're a wordsmith, check it out.
Cool Gadget: 5-In-1 Connection Kit for iPad: One of the biggest drawbacks to most of Apple's small devices is also its biggest draw: its simplicity. That simplicity comes at a price: the iPad only has one port to plug things into. You can plug devices into it that do all kinds of different things, but you can only plug one of them in at a time. Well, this week we have a gadget to help: the 5-in-1 Connection Kit. With this $45 gadget, you can connect your iPad to the TV for playback of video, an SD or Micro SD card, keyboard, USB device or charge it through the USB port. Now you've got ports, and as long as your digital camera's cards have a DCIM folder, you can move your photos from the camera to the iPad in a flash. It works with the iPad and iPad 2, as long as you have iOS firmware versions 4.1.0, 4.2.1, or 4.3 only. If you have others, you'll need to get one of those to use this gadget. By the way, they suggest only using one device at a time. I suspect that this is because more than one device will draw too much power, which will at best shorten your battery life, and at worst not work.
It's All "Geek" To Me: Crop: This week, we turn our attention to the term crop. Not corn, not wheat, or anything like that. In fact, that kind of crop adds something; the kind of crop I'm talking about today is more of the opposite. It's a digital photography term, referring to cutting away the extra parts of a photo, leaving only the parts you're interested in keeping. Cropping is used for instance to remove people from one photo to put them into another, like in that Microsoft "to the cloud" commercial where the lady creates the family photo she could never actually take.
Links
Tech Tip Friday's Show Notes RSS Feed:
http://www.daconsult.com/downloads/rss.xml
Windows Genuine Advantage Diagnosis Tool from Microsoft:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/3/3/533A40BE-936B-4267-B043-2F04233A78A6/MGADiag.exe
Windows 7 displays "Windows is not Genuine" with an error code of 0x80070005:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2008385
TeamCrossword.com:
http://www.teamcrossword.com/
5-in-1 Connection Kit for iPad at USB Fever:
http://www.usbfever.com/index_eproduct_view.php?products_id=2287
Crop at TechTerms:
http://www.techterms.com/definition/crop |
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