Counterfit XP Pro installed w/o disk over XP Home on its own

[Guest KingNando]

I have XP Home on my computer. It is a legal copy. It came installed on

computer and always will be there even if reformated. I was adding a port to

my network settings and it said I needed to restart my computer before they

would take effect. I restarted and windows dynamic update came up. It started

installing XP Pro with out any disk in the drive. I dont even own a XP disk

for this to happen. Well there was no stopping this so called upgrade from

happening so I waited it to complete. Once completed and rebooted it let me

know that it wasnt even a legal copy of XP.

Now how in the hell does something like this happen?

 

I tried to do a system restore but that has its own issues. System restore

is enabled and always has been but for some reason it only saves a single

restore point. As soon as the systems creates a restore point it is

impossible to reach the previous, almost as if deleted by windows. It wont

allow me to change months or anything. So I cannot restore to before this

happened because it has been deleted.

 

I went into add and remove programs and looked for the installed upgrade and

it is not there. I dont want to have to reformat. How do I undo what was done

and will history repeat itself if I do? How do I prevent this?

[Guest Malke]

Re: Counterfit XP Pro installed w/o disk over XP Home on its own

 

KingNando wrote:

> I have XP Home on my computer. It is a legal copy. It came installed on

> computer and always will be there even if reformated. I was adding a port to

> my network settings and it said I needed to restart my computer before they

> would take effect. I restarted and windows dynamic update came up. It started

> installing XP Pro with out any disk in the drive. I dont even own a XP disk

> for this to happen. Well there was no stopping this so called upgrade from

> happening so I waited it to complete. Once completed and rebooted it let me

> know that it wasnt even a legal copy of XP.

> Now how in the hell does something like this happen?

>

> I tried to do a system restore but that has its own issues. System restore

> is enabled and always has been but for some reason it only saves a single

> restore point. As soon as the systems creates a restore point it is

> impossible to reach the previous, almost as if deleted by windows. It wont

> allow me to change months or anything. So I cannot restore to before this

> happened because it has been deleted.

>

> I went into add and remove programs and looked for the installed upgrade and

> it is not there. I dont want to have to reformat. How do I undo what was done

> and will history repeat itself if I do? How do I prevent this?

 

What you describe above is not possible. You are misunderstanding what

you saw. There is no such thing as "Windows dynamic update". There is no

way for people not sitting at your machine to figure out what its true

state is. At this point, the most efficient thing for you to do is to

take the machine to a professional computer shop and have them find out

what is really going on. This will not be your local version of

BigComputerStore/GeekSquad. Get the name of a reputable person/shop from

friends and/or colleagues.

 

 

Malke

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