Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "Blame Me: The INSIDER Secrets of Windows Product Activation!" video.

  1. Interesting story. I ran into an issue with an install of Windows 7 two years ago where I had to upgrade from Vista that had just gone off support in 2018 and was running an older version of Firefox and some sites like MSN's Outlook no longer worked right so through the help of a friend, I found an image of Win 7 to install. It all appeared fine, I installed and registered it, all was fine for several months until the end of 2018, then the original 10 YO HD on my old Dell began to fail and I don't recall all that happened, but ultimately, I had to reimage the drive from the same source, only that source now no longer worked and became fishy and what I had was apparently belong slowly shut down by MS as it discovered it was not a legit install. Apparently, I may have downloaded what was an OEM image of 7, not a retail version, even had the key and all. Anyway, by this point, I was forced to reinstall (or try anyway) my old Vista OS but the drive failing, was losing sectors left and right and I tried to get a fresh drive, only to not being able to install a boot partition as disk part was corrupt - so ended up with a refurbished Dell Optiplex with Windows 10 Pro, an OEM image with product key sold to used PC retailers and the like other than upping the memory from 8 to 16G, I had to a week ago replace the 120G SSD that this machine came fitted with for a 500G version and I cloned the drive, all partitions and so far, so good. I still need to extend the C partition as Macrium would not let me extend the partition since I was going to a larger drive for some reason. So at least Windows 7, on they can get you if you try to cheat with the OS. Oh, MS did the same with my OEM copy of Office 2007 that I bought with the old Dell so now use Libra Office instead.
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