New build from old parts...COA question

On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 11:07:41 AM UTC-6, Bob_Villa wrote:
I assembled some parts I had lying around from salvage: an old Asus/AMD M/B and a used laptop drive I had from a portable USB. When I loaded Windows 7 from an OEM Dell DVD it never asked for the COA. I've never had this happen and was wondering how or why? It's been a few months, so it didn't come back and ask for it...Thanks for any thoughts!

Yesterday it finally said "Windows is not genuine" and it shows a black background wallpaper. It asks, "Do you want to resolve this online?"
When I've installed before it would show an icon "key" and keep nagging for the COA.

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 14:31:35 -0800 (PST), Bob_Villa
wrote:

On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 11:07:41 AM UTC-6, Bob_Villa wrote:
I assembled some parts I had lying around from salvage: an old Asus/AMD M/B and a used laptop drive I had from a portable USB. When I loaded Windows 7 from an OEM Dell DVD it never asked for the COA. I've never had this happen and was wondering how or why? It's been a few months, so it didn't come back and ask for it...Thanks for any thoughts!

Yesterday it finally said "Windows is not genuine" and it shows a black background wallpaper. It asks, "Do you want to resolve this online?"
When I've installed before it would show an icon "key" and keep nagging for the COA.

There is a particular update (the number escapes me, but googling for
Win 7 nag should reveal it, or ask and I'll dig it up) which results
in that behaviour. Delete/uninstall that update and you get back your
desktop behaviour.

Another update (last Dec IIRC) now causes the banner in the lower
right above the status bar:

Win 7
Build 7601
This copy is not genuine

or similar. Haven't got round to chasing that one down.

This MS attitude to paid-for O/S's givesme the irrits.

On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 8:24:48 PM UTC-6, pedro wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 14:31:35 -0800 (PST), Bob_Villa
wrote:

On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 11:07:41 AM UTC-6, Bob_Villa wrote:
I assembled some parts I had lying around from salvage: an old Asus/AMD M/B and a used laptop drive I had from a portable USB. When I loaded Windows 7 from an OEM Dell DVD it never asked for the COA. I've never had this happen and was wondering how or why? It's been a few months, so it didn't come back and ask for it...Thanks for any thoughts!

Yesterday it finally said "Windows is not genuine" and it shows a black background wallpaper. It asks, "Do you want to resolve this online?"
When I've installed before it would show an icon "key" and keep nagging for the COA.

There is a particular update (the number escapes me, but googling for
Win 7 nag should reveal it, or ask and I'll dig it up) which results
in that behaviour. Delete/uninstall that update and you get back your
desktop behaviour.

Another update (last Dec IIRC) now causes the banner in the lower
right above the status bar:

Win 7
Build 7601
This copy is not genuine

or similar. Haven't got round to chasing that one down.

This MS attitude to paid-for O/S's gives me the irrits.

I have it set to never update.

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 20:05:34 -0800 (PST), Bob_Villa
wrote:

On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 8:24:48 PM UTC-6, pedro wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 14:31:35 -0800 (PST), Bob_Villa
wrote:

On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 11:07:41 AM UTC-6, Bob_Villa wrote:
I assembled some parts I had lying around from salvage: an old Asus/AMD M/B and a used laptop drive I had from a portable USB. When I loaded Windows 7 from an OEM Dell DVD it never asked for the COA. I've never had this happen and was wondering how or why? It's been a few months, so it didn't come back and ask for it...Thanks for any thoughts!

Yesterday it finally said "Windows is not genuine" and it shows a black background wallpaper. It asks, "Do you want to resolve this online?"
When I've installed before it would show an icon "key" and keep nagging for the COA.

There is a particular update (the number escapes me, but googling for
Win 7 nag should reveal it, or ask and I'll dig it up) which results
in that behaviour. Delete/uninstall that update and you get back your
desktop behaviour.

Another update (last Dec IIRC) now causes the banner in the lower
right above the status bar:

Win 7
Build 7601
This copy is not genuine

or similar. Haven't got round to chasing that one down.

This MS attitude to paid-for O/S's gives me the irrits.

I have it set to never update.

Interesting. The black desktop background (i.e. ignoring your
selected DTBG) was a characteristic/outcome of a check performed by
that update I referred to. Prior to that (and after uninstallation of
the said update), out-of-the-box W7-7601behaved properly wrt desktop
background selection. Here, anyway.