So after a year of pretty much constant use on my lappy, last week I was getting frequent BSOD's and crashes. Most of the time these things happened at really inopportune times (typing school assignments, watching questionable videos, etc). So I back up everything onto a usb drive and I go out and buy windows and office. (I know, I coulda just done a system restore, but I've been wanting to do a clean install for awhile now.) I install windows and format all the partitions, deleting the recovery partition, which I didnt need.

So I get to windows and its all shiny and bright eyed and bushy tailed and its so clean! Its like having a new pc! (that's one year old. >.>) So I install every updated driver I can find (except the BIOS update, which I'm considering..) and I install office and it gives me some dumb pop up that says you might be a victim of software counterfeiting. wait, what?? O.O

So it makes me download this windows validation tool thingie and it proceeds to validate windows. Apparently I'm not a bootlegger since the feds didnt arrive at my house shortly after. So today I boot up the lappy and it asks me for my product key again, because it doesnt think my windows is genuine.

O.O

I put it in and apparently its satisfied. For now. This is so silly. How many times do I have to prove that I'm not a terrorist? I just wanna use my own computer. Unless newegg has started selling fake software, I should be okay, right?

Oh by the way, any software you guys think are "must haves" for a super clean pc? >.>