Windows 10: Windows Suddenly Deactivated Itself

Hello; as of roughly two days ago, my system has been displaying the "Activate Windows" watermark out of the blue. I have been using this PC, and the version of Windows I bought for it for over a year without issue until now. I did not change any hardware, and when I troubleshoot activation it says "we weren't able to activate Windows on this device." The Activation State says "not active" and "Windows reported that no product key was found on your device. Error code: 0xC004F213." I doubt I still have my copy of Windows lying around, but I could look for it.

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Windows 10 Pro suddenly shows deactivated.

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• Windows is not activated with valid product key (DanielRandy Replied on November 8, 2018)
• Win10 activation server down; your Pro license is still good,
  despite the warnings | Computerworld
• Microsoft is having Activation Server issues right now - gHacks Tech News
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Windows 10 suddenly deactivated

Same issue started today as was reported on November 8th, 2018.

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Windows Update suddenly hangs?

Windows Update is suddenly hanging for some reason... I went and downloaded and installed the first bunch of updates, restarted when asked, and now when I go back to windows update I just get the window with a white box forever. Reboot and it still does it. This happens to be on my main machine, running windows 7.

I've also noticed when I reboot it says configuring windows update, step 3 of 3, 47%. Maybe it somehow skipped something and is screwed forever?