Windows 7 "not genuine"

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NiceCupOfTea

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Sunday 25th January 2015
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Just getting pop up boxes telling me my copy of W7 isn't genuine (error 0x8004fe21) - if I follow the links it is basically trying to get me to buy it again!

A little Googleing shows that MS introduced some sort of problem with an update last month, and installing a particular patch and rebooting should sort it out:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2859267/operating...

However, I have done this and it is still popping up the message. Right click Compute -> Properties and it is showing as Activated. confused

Can anybody shed some light?