Windows 10: Activation suckcess!

I'm a winNDUNCE!

Installed 10...it auto activated.

Added "Program Features" using my Media Center Product ID.




It accepted it and restarted twice and I was golden. Or so I thought.
Bang bang, I "lost" activation.

Clicked to activate and was taken to that phone screen with 9 boxes of 8 numbers.
I bypassed the auto phone activation thinking that I had a 'special case' scenario.
Boy was that a mistake! Talked and was transferred to 7 different humans without anyone able
to resolve my activation snafu. The 8th on hung up on me.
So I call the robo number again and let the 'android' man take my numbers and then had
him go about relaying the Group A Group B ....Group H numbers and then I clicked "Activate ".
Son of a gun it WORKED. Back to 'personalizing' windows 10 build. Yeah!
Media Center kind of weirded out my System specs, and though it SAYS I have 8.1 Pro with
Media Center, it is quick obvious that is a misnomer.




Just wondering aloud.
A big THANKS for opening shop with tenforums to all admins involved in its creation!


:)

 

Can't Activate newly purchased windows 10 home

hi, I used the usb boot tool and installed windows 10S on my laptop. I realized I couldn't download anything not from the app store so I purchased windows 10 home. I was given a product key but it is not accepted in the activation settings. Just trying to
get this laptop operable.

Thanks

 

Activation "Unable to reach Windows activation servers"

Hi Michael,





Based on the details provided on this thread, if you replaced an hardware, it will affect the activation of your
Windows 10 since it is using a digital entitlement which our server will collect the data of your hardware to use it as reference for activation. In regards with the error message, you can refer to the article entitled
"Unable to reach Windows activation
servers" error after installing the Windows 10 Anniversary. In this article, there are instructions and on how to troubleshoot the error message.



Let us know how it goes.



Regards.

 

You got lucky! *Wink
But now you better check your version in the registry: HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion
if it doesn't read 9879 under CurrentBuild, you may not get important updates and new builds 'flight' may be disabled.

 

Well '' is not a misnomer
Here's my shots and I do have the 'wrong?' build number,
yet it seems I got some new updates today.

Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best!
Thanks for your help and knowledge.

 

You might be alright then! *Smile

 

Heading to Holland.
Putting on my clogs and gonna knock on wood! Wheeew!
Thanks

 

LOL...

... yes I reported in the supported keys thread that all windows 8 and 8.1 keys work - not sure how upgrading will work though (current Pro key does not work with the latest 9888 leak) - suggest you backup the SPP folder., in case you experience activation problems upgrading.
Restoring that folder should retain activation on that machine and save you a phone call, theoretically, anyway.

 

Something got lost in the translation.
Upgrading to what? Consumers Preview? RTM? Retail version of 10?
Are those the upgrades I might have issues with activation retention?

And I searched the world over and couldn't find an SPP folder anywhere.
So I didn't clone it elsewhere.

But yea, found your threads. Very informative.
I had the above problem and just rushed to see if TenForums even existed.
When I saw it did, I just rushed out my post before reading a single thread.
There is a lot of info out already. Great news!

Thanks
.

 

What I meant to say was that there is no Windows 10 with Media Centre SKU built into the current builds (not yet anyway) and that upgrading may pose problems for that reason.

The SPP folder can be found under the System32 folder.

 

You down with SPP (Yeah you know me)
You down with SPP (Yeah you know me)


Found it and will use it if needed. Iffen it don't work, I'll resign myself to watching DVD's in the
living room instead of the computer room. 70" beats 23" anyway...ha ha

Again...Thanks

 

Yea this popped up some time back,
https://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...tml#post155812

 

Yup, I read it after I had posted this thread.
Had to send back my new ASUS i7 for warranty [bad burner] so I did a factory reset.
Now I have always assumed that activation was keyed on 'machine info'.
So I'd guess that re-installation would auto activate. I'll let you know in a week or so.