Windows 10: Almost Daily Activation

My windows 10 home version 1909 64bit is causing me grief! I upgraded from a genuine windows 7 not long after windows 10 became available. Everything has been perfect until a few weeks ago when it displayed that it was no longer activated. I ran the troubleshoot on the activation page in settings / update and security and it reactivated windows. Unfortunately almost daily I get the message again and have to run troubleshoot. Eventually I contacted microsoft help who did all sorts of things remotely which I hoped would cure the problem but it hasn't.

Here are a few clues in the hope that someone can help me:

1. I have found the installed key using showkey plus and it states the key is a generic key which requires a digital licence for activation. Obviously when I run troubleshoot it works so the digital key must be somewhere.
2. If I go to control panel and open the system folder, hoping to see windows activated and the key, it instantly deactivates windows! I then have to go back to settings / update and security / activation and run the troubleshoot again.
3. I have run sfc / scannow and dism and there are no issues
4. I have reinserted the serial key in product update but that does not help
5. I am using a microsoft account to log in not a local account
Help!!

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Rectangles in my daily list of activities in the calender

I use my calendar frequently and everything was fine for the first year or so that I owned my Nokia Lumia 925. Then suddenly the daily list of activities started to have a rectangular box at the front of each activity, sort of like a list with asterisks,
but in this case it is a small rectangle. I know this might seem inconsequential but I would like to go back to my plain list of daily activities. Can anyone help me get rid of this nuisance?

 

Need Serious Help: How To Record Video of What is Done on my PC?

I suggest the following simple steps:

1. Set the autosave options in MS Office to a low value say 5 minutes.
2. Setup file history to autosave frequently - the shortest period is 5 mins
3. Install Macrium Reflect Free and configure it to do a daily incremental system backup

You should be well covered if you do the above to protect your key files.

 

Milestones

Welcome aboard dank and congrats to the stoners. We are seeing some members stepping it up for the contest and bringing some new names to the stoners list daily *Toast :toast: