Troubleshooting: We found a Windows 10 Pro digital license for this device running Windows 10 Pro. Also my win 7 pro key doesn't work. Windows 10 Home or Pro is installed, and you can use it. For the Volume license issue, we could try to ask for help from our Volume License Center. The system shown below, for example, is running the May 2019 Update, version 1903, with the 2019-04 Cumulative Update applied. Windows 10 Enterprise editions are available through the Volume Licensing Service Center. Correct, that is not licensed.
But don't do this just because you like a tidy system. It will attempt to find and solve activation problems. Calling support via phone did not help at all and I am really frustrated because I simply cannot afford to buy windows 10 again the watermark really bothers me. Windows 10 will no longer be able to activate from the activation server automatically. You will have four tabs - Contacts, Licenses, Product Keys, and Order Confirmation.
It also affects anyone who changes a motherboard or hard drive once Windows 10 has been installed. For whatever reason, when I logged into my account, it said there was no Win 10 license attached to the account. Thanks : well well 50 views and 0 replies anyways i have a similar issue , so ill add that here too. Discussion in '' started by Ninjawitz,. This is just the first time I have ever seen anything like this.
Hi Meli, Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. Then we did a remote support session and she helped me re-activate when I provided my Windows 8 Key to her and explained that I upgraded from 8 to 10. Each major release is associated with a build number. There have been many, many weird attempts at upgrading to Win 10, that go horribly wrong. Unable to activate Windows after hardware change Hi, Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.
Some of these users are remote. A couple of reboots later and Windows 10 activated itself. If you want to see other devices linked to your Microsoft account, then click the link See other devices linked to your Microsoft account. You'd have to provide more details again as I'm working off assumptions. Microsoft wants Windows 10 on every computer because it is the Store and their services that are important. We will be happy to assist you. I believed you can activate as many time as you need, but after i believe 3-4 times you'll need to do the phone activation.
Under Add a Microsoft account, click Add an account. The Activation Troubleshooter feature can help you resolve activation issues in that case. Follow the instructions in this article carefully: This procedure is especially useful when restoring Windows 10 on a system that originally shipped with Home edition and was manually upgraded to Pro. Even after the year to upgrade free limit has passed. I stopped counting after 50! So, depending on what exactly your hardware upgrade was, you may be looking at buying a new license.
From there, you can text-chat with a Microsoft support representative or have a Microsoft support person call you by phone. As usual, proper activation has little to do with proper licensing. The process allows you to pick the language, edition, and architecture. This tactic is not much different than Google and Android and giving it away for free granted, there are patent fees. I guess we as a public have always been complacent assuming that the fault is on our side while we put our faith on corporate giant like Microsoft that they could do no wrong :-. If you do not have one, then create it.
How, specifically, did you do the upgrade? Business and enterprise customers who have opted to defer new releases work on a slightly different schedule, with feature updates the official name for version upgrades being released several months after the general release date. After unsuccessfully trying to force activation I chose to wait a day or two. We recently had to add more to this number due to our annual re-imaging and I thought that might have been the culprit but as I mentioned earlier in this thread I can activate a new machine no problem. If the issue persists, do get back to us. Windows 10 activation after hardware change: Hello, I've been able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free and get a digital licence tied to my account. Wait and see I recently changed my motherboard and saw error 0x803f7001 for myself.
This is just the first time I have ever seen anything like this. Ryan4307 wrote: Moving a hard drive between identical towers or laptops is something that I have personally done hundreds of times without issue without having to re-sysprep or reactivate on both windows 7 machines and windows 10 prior to 1703. Moving a hard drive between identical towers or laptops is something that I have personally done hundreds of times without issue without having to re-sysprep or reactivate on both windows 7 machines and windows 10 prior to 1703. Just try to activate it multiple times and it will work. I've used this license before upgraded from being a windows insider a few years ago , and I have changed components before without issue.