<td>Hi,<p>I installed windows XP few days back on my laptop. It worked well for few days but now I’m facing some kind of error that say “you may be a victim of software counterfeiting, this copy of windows is not genuine”.</p><p>Most of the software programs are not working. I get this error whenever I start my laptop. I tried some articles form the web but they didn’t work at all.</p><p>I’m mentioning them below so you guys don’t suggest those methods as I have already applied them but didn’t got any result.</p><p><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20170702070159/https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-windows_programs/you-may-be-a-victim-of-software-counterfeiting/e5c9e20f-e52b-4bc9-8add-931d8ca677c9″ target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us…</a></p><p><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20170702070159/https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/you-may-be-a-victim-of-software-counterfeiting-337166/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>https://www.cnet.com/forums/discuss…</a></p><p><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20170702070159/http://www.crunchytricks.com/2014/11/how-to-fix-you-may-be-a-victim-of-software-counterfeiting-error.html” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>http://www.crunchytricks.com/2014/1…</a></p><p>Kindly suggest me something which work well.<br></p></td>
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The Product Key you used to install Windows may have been “blacklisted” by Microsoft because it was either not issued by them (ie a fake key) or it’s already been used by one or more other people.
Microsoft keeps a database of Product Keys which have already been used but it can take a couple of days for the warning message to appear in Windows.
You must buy a genuine Product Key which has never been used, but that’s going to be impossible now because Microsoft stopped issuing XP Product Keys several years ago.
I suggest you buy a more modern Windows version if your system supports it, or buy a new PC with Windows 10 pre-installed.
Windows XP is no longer officially supported – it’s too old.