Windows 10: Activate Windows watermark randomly appears after almost 10 years?

I got Win 10 Pro as a free upgrade from my college almost 10 years ago and the watermark for activating windows randomly just showed up. The weird part is that when I try to go to Settings > Update & Security > Activation it seems to be trying to load something that never shows up. I also tried "slmgr /dlv" in command prompt and it didn't display anything. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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Activate Windows Watermark

Hi Duncan,

The Windows activation watermark is usually appearing if the activation servers detect that a device is not activated. For further help with activating your copy of Windows 10, visit this
link. If the same issue persists after performing the troubleshooting suggestions on the link, follow these steps:

• Using Cortana, type Notepad and then click on Notepad (Desktop app).
• Type the following commands in Notepad:
  • @Echo off
    
    taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
    
    explorer.exe
    
    exit
    
    
• 
  Save the file and name it as Activation.bat.
  
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  Change the Save as type to All files.
  
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  Locate the file, right-click on it and then choose Run as Administrator.
  
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  After running the file, restart your computer and then check if the same issue persists.
  

Let us know if further assistance is needed.

 

Activate windows watermark randomly appeared

So, im running windows 10, Then randomly all of a sudden, The windows activate watermark appears, i tried troubleshooting the issue, It came up with, "Something intrrupted are troubleshooting, try in a few minutes 0x8007000d" I also cant factory reset because
it says "we could not reset ur pc no changes have been made", All of this happened, and i dont know how, i did not run anything? , I want to activate my windows again but i dont know how, as i bought another key, and it said it did not work, a d it was correct
as i tried on another computer, any help would be appreciated, should i use a thrid-party app to activate windows? like kmspico?

My PC is a Acer Aspire 5, it comes with windows 10 home, was working fine, till it happened. When i run that command you said, i get a non-core-standord pop-up,

 

Activate Windows watermark suddenly appeared

No changes have been made to the hardware, and I've had this laptop for nearly two years. This morning, a watermark appeared in the bottom right corner of my screen telling me to activate windows.

On the activation page in settings it tells me I don't have a valid digital license or product key, with the error code "0xc004f012".

It also suggests that I try the troubleshooter below, which then tells me that troubleshooting was interrupted and gives the error code "0xc3f6501".