What to do with laptop refurbished, but dated with a stolen key of Win 7.

I bought a laptop there is a man a mile or two on the road. I'll call him Man. He seemed nice, and it was affordable, so I was generally satisfied. It's a Lenovo 3000 N100 with a pirated version of 64-bit Windows 7, but I didn't know that at the time. In any case, since it is an old laptop with a newish Windows version, some hardware drivers not necessary, so its features is not optimal, in addition to having an illegal version of Windows. So, at this point, should I downgrade to XP/Vista to restore some of its features, or should I trash because it's such a mess of a laptop?

Also, I contacted the man and on his business ethics, we have reached an impasse. He runs a small but remarkable company of refurbishing computers and sell them, no doubt, with the exact same Windows key that he sold me. When I confronted him, he feigned confusion and just "downloaded from the internet, and that he didn't hack anything", said that he. Is there anyone that I could mention his company, or his work too discreet and I'm just a guy throwing a fit more get cheated?

Thank you in advance for the answers.

The laptop has a COA sticker or anything attached which indicates what version of Windows is preinstalled originally on this subject?

Based on a web search, it seems that Windows Vista is originally preinstalled. You can use the following work around:

How to: qualify the PC running Windows XP, Windows Vista or LINUX for windows 10 free Upgrade offer

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