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My battle to get back my windows 7 ultimate

July 2, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Today suddenly i got this message that “ my copy of windows 7 “ is not genuine.

Windows 7 activation problems

Daymm !!! i paid good money to get my windows 7 pack software from a newspaper advertisement ( guy who got a prize and wanted to sell his software ) and made sure the pack was genuine by checking the Microsoft seal and also having a look at a genuine one bought from the shop before i bought it from this advertiser in the newspaper.

It turned out to be a perfect genuine copy and i have been using it for almost 2 years now and suddenly i get a message that it has been blocked today

Immediately i went to Google and on some site they told me to renter my product key by right clicking on my computer and properties and then re entering my product key at the bottom of that screen

Guess what “ it didn’t work” said your software is blocked or something.

I managed to find a link to self help check on my pc and phone support by going through a help link on my pc.

I went through this automated phone help process that provided me a installion id set of numbers , there were 9 sets of numbers of 6 numbers each that i needed to type into the phone pad and when i finished typing it ,it said my windows is blocked

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i got a different set of contact numbers on that screen due to me being in Australia

This led me to the next step where they provided me phone support numbers ( a local Australian 13 zero number as well- ( Australian number going to Indian call center))

The girl in Microsoft support asked me for the same set of numbers once again and i provided it and she told me the same thing , your software is blocked and it old her i know that , thats why i have called your support number and she said sorry but i will give you a website url and you can send all your details over there

THAT WASNT MUCH HELP AT ALL MICROSFT , Why offer phone support then ?

Anyway the url she gave me was http://www.microsoft.com/howtotell/default.aspx

I decided to try another thing . ie restore back my pc from before and things seemed to be normal once again ,, however i noticed that my copy of windows 7 is still showing as not activated and now suddenly i keep getting this pop up ..my software is not genuine

Microsoft are you hearing me !! This is how genuine customers are treated ! not happy !!

I have a nagging suspicion that this could have happened due to software that i keep downloading and testing on my pc ,, with one of them turning out to be rogue software

————— Update 14 july 2013 —-

I am still battling to get my genuine windows 7 ultimate genuine copy recovered ( Microsoft has suddenly decided to blok my copy of windows even though its a genuine copy i paid good money for)

Today i went to the “Australian Microsoft” website once more to give another try ,

I clicked on on of th suggestions worked – to get this message

If you need additional support, we are here to help. Get in touch with a local support professional.
Click here for support

The next message i got was to activate windows , which was already done but i was desperate enough( from seeing the regualr counterfeit software message ) to try again. IT TOLD NE TO GET THE PRODUCT ID

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I got these instructions from the website

Click Start and then click Control Panel.
In the Category View, click System and Security, and then click System. In the Classic View, double-click System.
Under the Windows Activation section of the page, the Product ID (PID) is a 20 digit number next to Product ID.

No result from validation , Back to square one

I just got a contact number for Microsoft Australia, hope i get something useful from this now ( as i haven’t really got any real help from Microsoft so far from on-line nor from phone to solve my issue) . Let’s see how this goes !!

Contact Australia Microsoft
- Contact Us
- Call 13 20 58

Hope i can sort this out eventually

( Let me know if you have got into similar circumstances and what you have done to fix it !!)

Reserve bank of India going tough on PayPal users

November 29, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

With a growing number of people earning massive incomes In INDIA from work generated from the internet and online relating from website design to coding and programing work , the reserve bank of india is cracking down on income received via PayPal so that it remains more accountable. With income tax evasion considered to be a widespread issue in India Smile with tongue out , it would not be long before this sector would possibly go through some drastic changes.

Here are some changes from a a FA Q

Q: Why will PayPal not allow me to receive more than US$500?
Starting 1 March, 2011, PayPal customers in India will not be allowed to receive payments for any export-related goods or services for an amount exceeding US$500 per transaction. This change is to ensure that we continue to comply with the RBI Guidelines.
Q: Why will PayPal not allow me to keep money in my PayPal balance?
Starting 1 March, 2011, PayPal customers in India will not be able to keep money in their PayPal account balance. Instead, all money received into a PayPal account must be transferred to a customer’s India bank account within 7 days from the receipt of confirmation from the buyer in respect of the good or services. This change is to ensure that we continue to comply with the RBI Guidelines.

Q: The customers on my website are not able to complete purchase or pay via PayPal. Why?
Starting 1 March, 2011, PayPal customers in India will not be allowed to receive payments for any export-related goods or services for an amount exceeding US$500 per transaction. If you are listing products greater than US$500 per transaction then you may need to seek alternative methods of payment. This change is to ensure that we continue to comply with the RBI Guidelines.

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How to achieve life’s goals

June 6, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

Speech by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis

Don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.

There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.
"Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die. …….

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One thing about nurturing the spark – don’t take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? ……

It’s ok to score low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, have little fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices………" 🙂

"Don’t be serious, be sincere."!!

Some books by chetan Bhagat at amazon

The 3 (Three) Mistakes of My Life

One Night At the Call Centre

Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT (See all Contemporary Literature)

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Norton Security threats update

January 9, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

Today Norton’s security offered a 2011 update and the resulting new screen looked quite nice and professional and organized. A new interesting feature of the new Norton Internet security is the display of threats in your own countries and other countries that are updated on the go.

Top city’s with cybercrime activities

Here are a few snap shots showing the security threats currently happening in Australia and INDIA , check out the count of the threats in comparison to Australia and India its quite interesting to see which cities are more unsafe than others.

Norton™ Official Site

These maps below show the “top cities with cybercrime activity” happening ratios over the continent

Cybercrime Threats in Australia as above as per Norton 2011 ( NIS)

Sydney – 1562 threats

Melbourne – 1061 Threats

Brisbane – 852 Threats

Perth – 531 Threats

and in our neighboring country in Auckland – 758 threats ( possibly not enough computers there)

Cyber crime Threats in Mumbai comparison for cities below

Mumbai – 4366 Threats

New Delhi –2815 Threats

Chennai – 2491 Threats ( which indicates that too much IT literacy in India can also bring its own problems)

New Norton Internet security 2011 update (above)

Here is another ticker (above)that shows you the update on the latest viruses that are being unleashed on the internet and are spreading. The pic above says w32.wapomi.clinf , packed.generic.315 , infostealert.gen2 and wapomi.c are the latest virus threats happening.

Norton Now scans facebook WALL as well

Facebook has become a top social site on the web. More and more people spend a lot of time on Facebook, and this gives cybercriminals the opportunity to use Facebook to propagate malware. This feature lets users scan their feed for malicious URLs using Norton Safe Web. You get a report of the scan, which you can choose to share on your Facebook Wall.

Now this is good to know about what is happening around the world , but wonder how much of my internet bandwidth it is eating, it probably wont make much difference to me , but possibly would make a difference to some people in third world or still developing countries where internet bandwidth can be quite expensive. To explore more features and a review that are included in this new release have a browse – > over here

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Increase your Blog user registrations

December 28, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Makingmoney with your blog is not easy and a fundamental thing for making money on your blog is readers or eyeballs to your blogs. Rss subscriptions , feed readers ,email subscriptions can certainly portray the value of your blog and its worth.

Look at any successful blogger and he is sure to have a good rss feed subscriber count or email count or then most importantly a very high user count for his blog. Many bloggers new to the scene fake the user counts or then subscribers just to increase thier value of thier blog , but most of the time these sort of tactics don’t work in the long run.

Getting new subscribers like subscriptions on red bull

Recently by accident i realized how my subscriber count to one of my blogs started getting hit with user registrations like it was on powerade or red bull or something. This blog started to get user registrations via the word press user registration button. All that it took to get my user registrations count from like 3 in a week to atleast average 5 to 10 in day regularly past the last 4 weeks now. Now i know that this is not massive numbers but considering the not so massive hits that this blog gets its a very good conversion rate. Besides , what i am trying to focus on here is “ How you can increase your blog subscribers” . I am sure if you have a bigger blog with bigger number of hits the ratio will do your blog some good and come out with a nice registration ratio.

After analyzing the page i realized it could be only one thing “the post that i had posted as a featured post on the page”. I have not removed the featured post from the blog for the past 3 weeks due to my user subscriber count increasing. The post is an article on the worlds fastest car debuting on the Indian market and the post is in a Indian stock market / Business blog ( blog not disclosed due to obvious reasons). The post contained high resolution photos of the bugatti veyron and gave a good article on the car as well as a very brief message to traders in the market. Well the subscriber count has just been pouring in since then. As the content of the post regarding stock market was minimal and the photos was the attraction of the post ,i would assume the registration user count for the blog increased because of these photos , as nothing else has changed in the blog. The subscribe to button is placed right next to the first glossy photo ( on the left of it ) for people to subscribe to the blog by email.

This certainly goes to prove that people can certainly be attracted to register as a user to a blog just based on good visuals and nice placement of pics on the blog targeting the right audience with the right pics.

increase your email subscriber count

Image of the new subscribers that have been pouring into my email account since the change in the blog post.

Now also to keep in mind that the users that would frequent this blog would mostly be stock traders or then people in the finance industry who are either quite well off or then have some nice spending money and when you have a million dollar pics of the worlds fastest car , they sure can be tempted to hit the subscribe button just to get informed of more nice eye candy like this just in case the blog has more similar stuff being posted soon.

Hope you learned something from this and have a go at increasing your subscriber count. Would appreciate any feedback from experiences you have had doing this. Good luck !!

Are Indian affiliates marketing companies any good

September 11, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

I Like to stick with Google ad sense to make money, but you always need to have a back up plan so its good to dabble a bit in affiliates earnings as well. Other options like Amazon and Click bank and other affiliates can certainly bring in some extra money.

Moneymaking on the net is not an easy task and when the network is not paying you for your hard earn clicks and visits by people that is even more disappointing. I myself have experienced quite a few disappointment with quite a few small marketing network affiliates.

Recently i came across a Indian Network affiliate company that boasts quite a good client base that they are promoting, its been 2 months now and i still have some of their banners on my one site and have not got nay sales or clicks , but then i have been a bit lazy in taking them to place them in the correct spot and then updating the latest ads as well.

The affiliate company is www.shoogloo.com

Here are some of their clients that they promote , i have also noticed they have now started paying good commissions for promoting jet airways sale .

if you already with them and have any input on them pls feel free to leave a comment. I am still hoping that i make some money with them

My battle to get back my windows 7 ultimate

Windows 7 activation problems

Contact Australia Microsoft

Reserve bank of India going tough on PayPal users

How to achieve life’s goals