content: Help with activating Windows 7 Professional. A friend of mine recently burned a copy of Windows 7 Professional onto a disc for me. I installed it on my machine with no problem. The only issue I am having is that these messages keep popping up telling me "this version of windows is not genuine" or "activate windows". These are getting to be pretty annoying to me. I was wondering if anyone on here had a windows 7 professional product key they would be kind enough to let me borrow or if anyone knows a way to bypass this. They easy way would be to buy a key from Microsoft but i dont want to support a malware/spyware company.  Edit: A worry of mine is if i do activate this copy of windows 7 then would microsoft be able to update this to windows 10 like they said they were doing with all versions of windows 7?