After 2 hours of trying to activate Windows they obtained the latest activation code, as I said before, the fourth. A remarkable blend of arrogance and incompetence supported by a monopoly position: that is not the American way. Select I agree to accept the Microsoft Services Agreement. The licenses are used my 2 vista machines and one Win7 machine in my house. I have a great dislike for any effort that encumbers me, a paying customer, for using software that I purchased.
If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact. Folks, I rest my case. Any imposition on the user is wrong. This problem should go away, because Microsoft is suppose to issue a patch to by-pass the activation requirement s. You can also click on the error detail to find the exact error. I did not have to put in a key to install initially, but when I got up and running I decided to activate immediately.
Check your firewall If you're using a firewall from another manufacturer, visit the manufacturer's website for information about how to temporarily disable the firewall. My problem is that I get 8 Windows updates, that after I install and restart, are there again. I downloaded 82 updates and re-started the system, I received the cannot login without activating. Dell preloaded the trial version of Office365. But if i would to restart my pc my windows would be activated when i first start upp but if i stay online and keep pc online on desktop the activate windows will pop upp again. By following the above steps you can easily remove activate windows watermark from your computer or laptop.
Does anyone know how this can be fixed? I tried the above workaround, but it still doesn't work. Phone folks were really clueless, after an hour of onward referrals I was back at the start. Regards, Melon Chen TechNet Community Support Please mark the reply as an answer if you find it is helpful. If you continue having this problems with activation, contact your organization support person. I have always believed that the folks who pirate software are wonderful advertisers for the software. Step 4: Troubleshoot activation If Office still won't activate, choose your Office version for additional troubleshooting help. This message doesn't prevent me from doing anything on the laptop.
Even a regular Control Panel uninstall of the trialware seemed insufficient, if I had to guess. Tempting as it is, anger rarely helps. We got my win7 activated and working again, and the phone rep told me that this had become a common issue, but nobody was certain exactly how it happens. Apr 5, 2016 I just bought an ssd. I tried the solution to no avail The problem is the pre-loaded Office applications seem to have been moved to the App store What I have found is for whatever reason every Dell I am presented with recently has Office pre-loaded as a Mirosoft Store app. A circular loading dialogue would appear not the standard Windows 7 wait cursor, something specific to the Office web page and then disappear. My question to you is why did you bother? I've seen the reports of the same symptoms from Dell machines.
Apr 3, 2016 Everytime I open the messages tile, this message keeps popping out, authentication required, continue or cancel. I could really use some help here! I go to install Windows 8 from the very disk that Microsoft had me download when I upgraded one of my Windows 7 licenses in December 2012. Luckily I found this awesome article. Hi Mary, Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. This guy takes a while to check my key. The linked registry key deletion succeeded. Without exception, every method of authentication that I have seen in 30 years has been defeatable.
Activation is for a given set of hardware. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Also, there is an additional method to get rid of 0xC004F074 error by running the System File Checker on your operating system. Solution is to get another key from Dell, as you found. So, I forked out the money and bought a new install disk and product key. I chatted with a Microsoft tech.
The automated phone system had no clue how to handle that. Every time I launch an Office application, it asks for activation. If W7, you can try putting your old W7 keycode in where it says Change Product Key. Probably from overclocking it a little harshly. Now out of the blue i have to activate windows which i have already done like a year ago and have to put up with this stupid watermark. Oct 12, 2015 Every time i try to install some drivers from Windows Update I get the error code 0x80073afc. Even the tech I talked to was not familiar with this new Beta site.
It installed and when it came back to regular mode, no more activation required message. I noticed that i am using version 2015. You might see multiple versions installed, like this: If more than one version appears, right-click the version you aren't using and select Uninstall. I get home and it installs, but when I get up and running in Windows it still wants me to activate, so I decided to use my older activation key instead of the newer one. Mar 4, 2016 when updating apps in windows 10 store, a msg pops out saying something went wrong and error code is 0x80072f78.
Plus, it is not exactly straight-forward. I had the same issue. Clicked yes and of course there was no internet connection. In the early nineties there was an epiphany by many of the software companies that I really though made sense. Currently on the phone for 2 hours and 29 minutes. I do not know why this happened. Update type: Important A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product that could affect your system.