Posts by Jesse Diaz3

Well, I didn't realize that, though honestly, I just ended up getting this laptop as a gift, so it doesn't really matter much—I suppose I'll just have to figure things out as I go. 🙂

So, this just popped up on my laptop out of nowhere... I guess it’s just one of those things, but does anyone actually know how to fix this? Could someone maybe walk me through what I need to do? 😁

So, I just looked at my screen and noticed the wallpaper has gone completely black, and there’s this nagging little message sitting in the bottom right corner that says:
'Windows 7
build 7600
This copy of Windows is not genuine'
I guess I'm wondering, what exactly am I supposed to do to get things back to the way they were before this happened?

Actually, it wasn't popping up during startup for me, but more so right when I was shutting everything down, though I did end up pulling the 😂 out. I went ahead and stopped that download process, and then I just wiped it from the download queue entirely, which seems to have made that little yellow shield icon vanish. I'm honestly not sure if it's just a temporary fix or if it's gone for good, but I'm really hoping it stays away for good this time 🙂

So, here’s the deal. Yesterday, I was looking for that old Microsoft movie maker tool, so I headed over to the Microsoft site to grab it. I started the download, but things just stalled out. When I finally got to the installation phase, it was dragging its feet so badly that I honestly didn't have the patience to sit there staring at a progress bar, so I just killed the process and nuked the file from my downloads folder. But then, this morning, I noticed this weird thing popped up in the bottom right corner of my screen, kind of like this



It said something along the lines of "Windows updating," or whatever. At first, I didn't really wrap my head around how to stop it, so I just closed my laptop lid and went about my business. It wasn't until later that I realized I might be able to kill the process by opening Chrome—which is what I use—going to my downloads, and hitting cancel on the transfer. I actually mentioned this to my brother since I wasn't home at the time, and he probably did exactly that, because the download seems to have stopped and the activity in my downloads folder is gone now. However, there's a catch. Now, when I go to the Start menu, right next to where I usually shut down the laptop near the 'shut down' option, there's this orange and black shield icon. When I hover my mouse over it, it says "Installing updates and then shut down your computer." I guess I'm wondering if this is some kind of glitch or if I'm actually in trouble? What am I supposed to do to make this disappear so I can just turn off my laptop normally without seeing some "updating 1 of 190" nonsense pop up every single time?😁