Windows 10: Activation page: only moving dots

Hi,


my Windows 10 x64 Pro installation (Version 10.0.16299.967) is working well. It's been activated successfully months ago. There's no actual problem with it. The only thing that makes me curious is: Why does the Activation page only show moving dots at the top for an infinite duration? Software should not do this to a user. At least after a while, it should show what it is trying to do and why it fails.







I thought, maybe it's trying to connect to wherever and fails due to a firewall restriction. But, as I've enabled logging dropped firewall packets, I'm able to see that there's nothing related. I've also executed "slmgr /dlv", and it shows the expected dialog with the expected information. The default procedures like "sfc" and "dism" have already been performed (for a different reason), but there was nothing remarkable. So, I'm wondering, what else could be the cause for not displaying the content of the Activation page? Maybe a service is not running? In case, which one? And why isn't this shown as an issue?

Thanks

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Newbie needs advice moving Win8.1 ==> Win10


In your shoes I would

1. Take a backup of the OS drive with Macrium Reflect, as suggested
2. Download the ISO and do an Upgrade install (step 7 in this tutorial)

Macrium gives you a way back if the upgrade doesn't work, and I also think that doing an Upgrade install is probably likely to be your quickest route to being activated on Windows 10 by the deadline.

Once activated, you can consider doing a clean install later but without the time pressure.