Windows 10: All of a sudden, my Windows 10 education is not activated

I bought my laptop through my school, so I don't know how they installed windows on it. I've had it for 5 years and all of a sudden I started receiving very frequent notifications that Windows isn't activated. I've now got a watermark telling me to activate Windows.


I found my product key through the command prompt, pressed "change product key" and typed it in and got this error:


You are running Windows 10 Education. The product key you entered cannot be used to activate this edition. Error Code: 0xc004f210.


This is really annoying me and I don't know what to do. I can't find any solutions online.




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Activating WINDOWS 10 Education

Does it matter that this article is about Windows 10 Pro or do I have to follow the same steps to activate windows education on Windows 10 Home?Thanks a lot

 

Can't activate windows 10 education

Hello Paige, my name is Irisdiel and I am an independent advisor.

I suggest you follow the in instructions on the URL down below.

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

I also suggest following the steps on the link below to run a clean install if the link above didn't help:

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

Thank you and good luck!

Regards- .

 

Windows 10 Education Pro

I've not had an opportunity to test Pro Education edition yet but I am running normal Education on a Hyper-V virtual machine and on dual boot with Pro on a laptop. Basically Education is exactly as Enterprise, meant for domain or Azure AD use. Main differences when compared to Pro are missing Cortana and no possibility to use Microsoft account as initial user account when setting up Windows, although when selecting initial user as local domain user a normal local account will be created which can then be switched to a Microsoft account instead of joining a domain.

Native Windows apps in Windows 10 Education edition are the same than in Pro edition, Cortana being the only exception.

If you already have setup Windows 10 Pro on your machines with a customised image I can see no benefits in doing the job again deploying an almost similar OS. This is of course only my personal subjective opinion based on what I know at the moment; I have no knowledge or insight about what additional features (see highlighted part in quote below) Pro Education might be and if they would be reason enough to upgrade to Pro Education.

Quote from https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...tion-customers: