So I bought a laptop a few months back, and all was good. But one day I had to watch a movie for school and I decided I would watch it on my Laptop. It said I needed some media player to run a movie, which I needed to pay or something (wasn't sure) so I googled it and said I could get it for free if I entered this serial key, which I did. But after installing the software or whatever it did, It kept saying that the windows was not genuine (or similar) and I need to to activate windows. It pops up randomly in a blue screen and is really, really annoying when trying to work. I did some further googling on how to solve it, but after following the steps to deactivate the popup message, the box to uncheck it was greyed out, meaning I couldn't disable it. Do I need to fork out money to reinstall Windows, and If I do have to, would I lose all my data on my Laptop? I could back it up, but I'd have to pay further for an external hard-drive which I don't have the money for. Any way just to get rid of the blue popup screen or fix this would be an absolute legend! Thanks for the help in advance.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Toshiba Satellite P50t-A
- CPU
- Intel i7
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia Geforce
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Mouse
- Razer Deathadder
- Browser
- Google Chrome
- Antivirus
- Norton Online