driver magician

i ran the above named program on my desktop PC and it came up with an update for Realtec Audio so i let it do the job and after the update installed it required a restart after this the usual loading screen came up then at the stage where i have to put in my password i got a message that "YOUR COPY OF WINDOWS NEEDS ACTIVATION AND THE KEY YOU HAVE ENTERED IS NOT GOOD" so i re-booted with the same result in the screen it asked for a new code or activate later so i chose activate later with that the desktop loaded but was black and I had no access to any of windows apps a pop up said your copy of windows is not legal?

after a lot of trying to sort it out i re-formated and having everything backed up it was no big deal.

Has anyone else used this software?????

 

thanks for the reply David i have learned another lesson from this

 

I agree with Halo.... my feeling with drivers is "if they aren't broke, don't fix 'em". I see no need to update drivers unless a particular program requires a newer driver. Some games require newer video drivers and this is about the only situation I can think of where a driver update would be mandatory. Sometimes games will run better with a newer video driver but the update isn't really required. However, I do check my motherboard maker's web site maybe 3-4 times a year just to see if any unknown issues have been discovered and rectified; in a situation like this, I'll update a driver. Other than these scenarios, IMO driver updates are basically un-necessary and possibly may cause more problems than they can fix (as you discovered). I also think that using a 3rd party tool to install drivers isn't a good idea. Maybe using something like Driver Magician to find out if a new driver is available, but not to actually download and install it. The margin for error is too great. It's good thing you had a recent back up. I wish everyone did that!

Just my two cents...

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Was that what it said verbatim, or was that a translation?

I suspect malware, especially considering your "interactive services" thread.

 

I am not sure if it was verbatim but that was the main theme of the message.

the interactive problem came after the re-format and before i opened my backup folder.