Windows 10: Sudden Activation Prompt!- Genuine Windows 7 upgraded freely to Windows 10

Hi, I bought my PC preinstalled with Windows 7 in 2014 and it was working fine and then I did free upgrade to Windows 10 home edition. It was working fine, until now. Now, it prompts me to activate windows and when I tried in the settings. It gives me error.


What should I do? I don't have product key or I could not find any digital license for my upgrading to free windows 10.

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Windows 7 not genuine problem

It seems like that's an OEM windows copy, it will do that the every time you reinstall the OS. If you have the key, next time you see the "not genuine windows copy" click it and choose to activate by phone, everything else is pretty straight forward as it explains step-by-step. If it doesn't work, then its highly likely that you got a Pirate copy.

 

Windows 7 Activation Problem

A"friend" told me that their piratebay version of windows 7 is working just fine.

*Roll Eyes

 

Installing Windows 10 using Windows 7 key

Nope, you need to install Windows 10 first and make sure the Windows 7 key is transferred to your Windows account after you've installed Windows 10 (not quite sure how that works). I missed the last step and I could not activate Windows 10 after a re-install... Microsoft seem to have done everything they can to make it a PITA. Also, it's technically too late to do this now anyhow, as the upgrade offer has expired. But KMSPico works quite well...

As for getting rid of Windows, delete the Windows folder.