You can get this Windows for free and run it for quite a while until they decide to sell it.
Bob
Hey everyone so I recently built a custom pc and had my buddy install the OS. Apparently he downloaded a hacked version without me knowing so eventually iy now says that "windows is not genuine". I used some tricks here and there to fix it like rearming through cmd to give me another 30 days but eventually it said I ran out of rearms. I use my computer for everyday things like email and school but I mainly use it for gaming, rendering videos, and recording software like Sony vegas, elgato capture, and photoshop. I am curious whether having genuine windows has a really big impact on my computer. Will it give me hardware issues? Also I understand if you don't have genuine windows you can't update windows and that can be a security issue. But I really am just wondering if it's REALLY important to have genuine windows. Thanks for any help!

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