Windows 10: What will happen on Jan 20, 2016?

What is this screen trying to tell me? Am I activated for good? Or not? And where did the date of Jan 20, 2016 come from anyway?

PS: My WIn10 is a clean install of Build 10240.

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What Will Happen to my data on my pc ?

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What Will Happen to my data on my pc ?

 

Did you do an upgrade over a valid copy of WIn7/Win8.1 first?? You will need to do that first in order to perform a clean instillation or you will not be able to activate Win10.

And no.. your not activate at this time.

Jeff

 

If his Windows is not activated then why does his screenshot say that it is? His Windows most certainly is activated - it just expires in January, 2016 because he used an insider preview key to install it with.

A few things to try. Make sure you have the Insider Preview key written down you used to install it with. Open an elevated command prompt ("run as administrator" command prompt).

Enter slmgr /upk - that will remove the insider product key and cause Windows to deactivate.
Enter slmgr /ato - that will cause Windows to attempt to activate without a product key, probably won't work but worth a try.
If that does work - enter slmgr /xpr - if it says permanently activated you are good to go. STOP and enjoy Windows 10!
If that does not work - enter slmgr /ipk VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T
That will put the generic upgrade product key in.
Enter slmgr /ato - again probably won't work, but worth a try. If it does work, then slmgr /xpr - if it says permanently activated, you are good to go!
If none of that works then:
slmgr /upk, slmgr /ipk [insert insider preview key here], slmgr /ato - to get back to your temporary activation.

Either wait to see if a new insider build is available for Jan, 2016 or go back and install a Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 and upgrade to free Windows 10 from that.

 

If that's the case it might de-activate on that date. When doing a clean instillation you don't enter any key no matter how many times you're prompted. In my case I was prompted 3 times and in the end it activated. Keep in mind I did an upgrade over 8.1 and it activated and then I did a clean instillation.

 

NavyLCDR:

Yes, you are correct - I did use the INsider key to activate my Win10 install ofbuild 10240.

And no, I did not do an upgrade of my Win7.1 system. Instead I downloaded the 10240 ISO file and did a clean install on a brand new SSD boot drive. Then I simply swapped out my old Win7.1 drive for the new one.

My understanding was that this was the correct way to get a legit WIn10 clean install. Did I miss something? What should I do prior to Jan 2016 to keep my Win10 activated?

 

If you just recently did the clean instillation then the activation server is down for the preview builds. The way to get a clean install of Win10 RTM is to upgrade from either 7 or 8.1 and then do the install.

At that point you can chose to stay in the insider program or not.

 

I added to my post #3.

Now, if you have your old Win7 drive still - clone it to the SSD boot drive, make sure that boots OK. When you boot from the SSD drive, I would have it as the only drive installed. Make sure Windows 7 is activated. Then upgrade that to Windows 10.

 

This^^

 

That is a KMS 6 month activation notice and has nothing to do with Insiders evaluation period.
Google -T83GX (it's a volume license key), the winaero site has full details.

 

Thank you for the correction.

 

But I do not want to upgrade my Win7.1 system to Win10. My WIn7.1 system (the OS part of it) is more than 5 years old and badly bloated. I needed to do a clean install of Win 10, which is what I did.

At the time I did it MS had published an Insider activation code that worked OK. My Win10 has always said it was activated. Subesequent to my installation MS disallowed the Insider activation code to work. Apparently now, in order to do a clean install, you have to first upgrade your current system, download the Win 10 ISO file, do a clean install of that (presumably on top of what you just upgraded), and then re-enter your old Win7 activation code.

This seems like a laborious and risky procedure to me.

For some reason I just noticed the Jan 20, 2016 date - maybe it wasn't there before.

At any rate, is there a way to determine what my status really is? Does anyone know what is supposed to happen on Jan 20, 2016? Am I the only person seeing this message?

Edit:

Aha! slmgr /xpr says "Volume activation will expire 1/20/2016 7:19:02 AM

So I have a timebomb waiting to explode.

Wonderful.

 

You can do a clean install of Windows 10. You just have to do the upgrade first.

1. Go back to Windows 7: either just use the old drive, clone the Windows 7 to the new disk, or install Windows 7 clean.
2. Make sure Windows 7 is activated.
3. Upgrade the Windows 7 to Windows 10. Make sure the upgrade is activated.
4. Do a clean install of Windows 10 and skip entering product keys - do not enter one. The clean install will permanently activate.

or

Buy a retail product key and on the activation screen change your product key to it.

You will not re-enter your old Windows 7 product key. You will get a new, permanent activation stored on Microsoft Activation Servers based upon the hardware configuration - not a product key. As long as you re-install Windows 10 on the same major hardware configuration (same motherboard, same CPU), it will retrieve the activation from the activation servers without a product key.

 

LCDR:

What a nightmare. I tried doing this:

slmgr /ipk VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T

That put my system into Notification Mode. I'm not sure what this is, but it must be bad.

So I'll go back and find the Insider key I used before and try to put that back.