[sjspry]

If you connect to the internet it should be fixed... Or, if not, I'm not really sure what I did. I am no longer seeing the message and am considered verified.

Either way, I don't believe Win7 has a "reduced functionality" mode. At the worst, you'd have to put up with some popups.

I assume the batch file does this, but enter "slmgr -rearm" at the command prompt.