Windows 10: Windows 10 will not activate

Yes, the message says "We found a Windows 10 Home digital license for this device running Windows 10 Home. To activate using this digital license, you need to install Windows 10 Home"

Help!

Thanks

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Windows 10 will not activate

Hi Robert,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

You may contact support to activate Windows by phone if you are facing any issues.

You may follow these steps to do a phone activation.

1. Press Windows key + X then

click Run, then type: slui.exe 4.

2. Next press the ENTER key.

3. Select your Country from the list.

4. Choose the Phone Activation option.

5. Stay on the phone (do not select/press any options) and wait for a person to help you with activation.

6. Explain your problem clearly to the support person.

I suggest you to refer this articles and check.

Get Help Activating Microsoft Windows

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/950929

Hope this information helps. Please let me know if you need further assistance.

 

Windows 10 will not activate

I think I did everything correctly. I upgraded to windows 7 and used my keycode from my PC Label where Dell put it. I received the upgrade symbol on my task bar and clicked it. The first time I received a message that my system was too old. and out of
date. then a few weeks later it appeared again and it worked. I entered the key code and was told it was not an active key code. what did I do wrong?

 

Hi kram106. Welcome to the the TenForums @kram106

Could you share with us how you got to this point.

Were you doing a reset, and Clean install or an upgrade ?

and why? (Dead drive, hardware upgrade, dead OS)

Here is the tutorial on Activation Trouble Shooting.

Use Activation Troubleshooter in Windows 10

and how to activate

Activate Windows 10

I supplied this one as there are several links to other tutorials at the bottom of it that may help.

Pretty sure a member will be able to help if you explain how you got to this point.


Ken

 

It looks like you need to install Windows 10 Home edition to activate Windows 10.

Which Windows 10 edition did you installed?

 

He does have Home installed - that strange message is something that has not been fixed since the troubleshooter was first introduced... I wish it would spit out some error codes or something meaningful.

I can't reproduce that error so can't check which events are being written etc...

OP can try running ADT and see if perhaps something in the report alludes to the cause...

Sometimes simply forcing the licence check helps -- by running the following in command:

slmgr /ato