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

[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?

 

[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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