Windows 10: Activating Win10 Pro: 0xc0000022

I initially acquired Win10 through an upgrade from 8.1. Since then my machine has had plenty of hardware changes. After one change, windows decided it wasn't active anymore, and I wasn't able to restore it. Some very unhelpful support were never able to clarify whether my license was supposed to remain valid or not.


I've recently reset windows, and resignedly bought another official product key for Windows 10 Pro, which is the currently installed edition.

I cannot, however, "change product key" to this new key bought half an hour ago. The dialog returns an 0xc0000022. I gather this is related to the Software Protection service, which is not running, and cannot be started even with admin elevation Access is denied.


Given that I've literally just reset windows, what avenues can I explore with regards to this error?




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Activation options for Win10 with instant clones

We have a secure (no internet access) lab environment setup to test and validate a VMWare VDI deployment of Win10 clients.

Our issue is activation of the Win10 clients as they require re-activation every time we logoff and back on because we are using instant clones.

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to resolve this? Here are the options we are considering and issues as we understand them:

• Setup a KMS server
  • Requires a Volume license, which is doable
  • Documentation says we must have a minimum of 25 hosts, we don' have that in our lab
• Use our MSDN account
  • No support for Win10 KMS license
  • No support for MKS activation
• Manually activate each time
  • Gonna spend a lot of time on the phone
  • Win10 has no grace period so machines are crippled w/o activation

Anyone have a thought or suggestions? I'm hoping I missed something.

Thanks

 

Activation Error : 0xC0000022

Hi Patit,

My name is Jocelyn, an independent advisor and a fellow Windows 10 user here to help.

Please answer the following questions so we have a better idea of what might be happening:

1. Did you reinstall your Windows prior to getting the error message?

2. Where there any changes made on your computers like hardware or newly installed apps?

If none, this error is mostly caused by an access problem triggered either by a specific application or by Windows itself.

I would suggest you follow the steps provided by RajithR in the following Microsoft article and see if it works for you.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

Let us know if this helps you.

Best,

Jocelyn

 

Windows 10 Pro Activation

I bought a Windows 10 pro product key yesterday but it shows error code 0xc0000022 when trying to activate