David,
   More than likely you got jacked up by a Windows Update...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2859267/operating-systems/windows-7-hit-by-rash-of-bogus-not-genuine-reports-validation-code-0x8004fe21.html

Derek Buchanan

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:57 AM,  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>     Last week, when I downloaded and installed updates on one of my
> netbooks. I got a strange pop-up, apparently outside Windows update,
> warning me that I might be a victim of pirates and telling me to
> download and run some kind of Windows activation program to verify that
> my copy of Windows waslegitimate.
>   My first thought was that there couldn't possibly be an issue, that
> that machine is running the version of Windows that came with it.  It's
> the only computer I've ever had running Windows 7 Starter,
>   As I thought about it, though, I realized that while it was he
> original copy of Windows, it wasn't on the original drive.  I had, at
> least 6 months previously, cloned the original 320GB hard drive (much
> less than full!) to a 256GB SD, which is what's in the netbook now, and
> reformatted the 320GB drive for use in my wife's MacBook, replacing its
> original 80GB (or was it 120?) drive.
>   Maybe Windows had finally gotten around to detecting the drive
> swap....  Meanwhile, I had downloaded and launched the software they
> called for. and after half an hour or so of doing nothing particularly
> visible, it pronounced itself satisfied that my Windows installation was
> legitimate.
>
> David Gillett
> CISSP CCNP
>
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