Windows 10: Unable to activate windows.

I bought a Envy 360 laptop a few days ago for work. In order to use it and access our work sites I'd have to image it. The imaging process consist of using another laptop to download a boot key onto a USB drive. Once that's done, while the Envy is powered off I insert the USB drive, power the laptop on and repeatedly press F9 until that menu shows up. I went through the process which reverted me back to Windows 10, once the laptop downloaded the software and booted up. There was one last step to complete the imaging process which consisted of connecting to the wifi but no wifi networks was sho

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Unable to Activate Win 8

I was about to suggest run CMD as Admin and then do a "slmgr -ipk xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx" activation...does anyone know if that works with win8?

 

Unable to Activate Win 8

I got Win 8 isntalled on my file server, but I am unable to activate it with the key. Says the key is invalid. Since I work at microsoft I got a retail version from the employee store. I have been doing some reading, and to be able to activate Win8 with the key there needs to be a previous version of Windows installed for it to work. WTF, so you can't do clean installs?

And the box says nothing about Upgrade version. Straight Windows 8 Pro.

 

windows xp installation and dual core am

could someone please list the steps they follow to install windows with a dual core processor and windows xp service pack to. I'm reletively new to amd dual core and i feel i'm missing a step. All help will be appreciated. thanx