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Try activating it with the Windows 7 key. It should work if the Windows 7 install was on the same machine and your Win 10 version (Home or Pro) is the same as the 7 version. Otherwise activate it by telephone. I have done it a few times and it is a little cumbersome, but not too painful.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I'll try activating by phone I guess. Thanks.
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raddevus wrote: Last night my wife was on her Win10 laptop and she said she didn't have internet access.I looked at the laptop and noticed that in the bottom right corner of task bar it said, "Activate Now" or something.
If you actually have no internet then phone is your only option. If however there is internet connection from the command line then...
Open Administrative Command Prompt
c:>slmgr /ipk ABCDE-12345-FGHIJ-67890-KLMNO
c:>slmgr /ato
First line installs Product Key (use your Windows 7 key) in Windows, second line activates Windows.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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That is fantastic!!
Thanks very much. I just saw this so I will try it tonight.
I was wondering about this months ago but never saw it explained this simply.
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That is documented behavior. All windows versions do that same after about 90 or 180 days without activation. You should have upgraded from Win7. It would have maintained the registration and done a "digital activation" for Win10.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOzYou should have upgraded from Win7.
Or upgraded to Linux, never to jump through these loops again.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Or upgraded to Linux,
So true.
Luckily I have a 4GB thumb drive with Slax loaded on it.
Boots in about 30 seconds and connects to wifi.
I can get her on the Internet (running Chrome) in about 1 minute.
Please check out Slax it is SO COOL Slax Linux - your pocket operating system[^] .
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LMAO Linux has it's own upgrade issues. Plenty of scary stories.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Ok, do they also spy on you, petster you with forced upgrades and get on your nerves with license and registration paranoia? With Mickeysoft you really get what you pay for.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Some of them do, like some of the "enterprise" ones.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Then to hell with them as well.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Probably it's where linux came from anyway...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOzYou should have upgraded from Win7
I don't understand that part, "upgrade?"
Sin tack ear lol
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Lopatir wrote: You should have upgraded from Win7
Replace with :
retrograded
Quote: moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
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Yes, I realize that for some it may seem a misnomer.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOzYou should have upgraded from Win7. It would have maintained the registration and done a "digital activation" for Win10.
I know.
Unfortunately, my wife's computer is a bit older (bought at the dawn of Win7, but it still works nicely -- or did) and I had put a smaller SSD in it to get some more time out of it.
That smaller SSD was not large enough to download win10 and maintain the win7 installation.
Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, did not allow for this type of upgrade so I wiped the SSD and installed the "free" unactivated version of win10.
Luckily I still have the old win7 HD lying around and I believe I can get the win7 key off of it and use it to activate win10 now that I've seen how to do that ==> Lounge reply shows command-line activation[^]
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Good deal.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That doesn't always work. The machine I was upgrading was a machine I had professionally built with Win8 installed on it. Turns out the same Win8 OS was installed on all machines they built so MS wouldn't activate my system. I had to go and buy a copy of Win10 just to get a valid activation code.
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Had the same recently, was on the phone to MS support for several hours as the tried to fix it remotely. The guy couldn't do it and escalated it to next level support. While waiting for them to call back (within 24 hours they said) I did a system restore to prior to the latest updates/installs - this fixed the problem
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Oh wow!
I will try restore to prior also.
Thanks very much.
Sorry you went through that garbage with support. Sheesh. 
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18 years ago on this day the Euro was born.
It's reached it's own legal drinking age.
Sin tack ear lol
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Reaching the legal drinking age doesn't mean you're grown up; it just means that you have yet another way to (legally) make a fool of yourself. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Time to screw with the Euro.
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Too late. In most EU countries, the age of consent is a lot younger than 18. See Ages of consent in Europe
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Ahhh!!! makes sense why it has been screwed up many times ....
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