Windows is not activated with valid product key

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I bought this license and activated this Windows like 1 or 2 years ago, and it's a valid key, I had my Windows Activated and everything works perfectly until today when I saw a watermark at to bottom corner asking me to Activate Windows.

I tried to reenter my product key but it says that I do not have a valid product key and refuse to activate my windows

Is there any solution for this?

P.S. I didn't reinstall my Windows or make any hardware change

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Contacted Live Agent Chat, and here is the response given

Thank you for sharing, Daniel. Microsoft has just released an Emerging issue announcement about current activation issue related to Pro edition recently. This happens in Japan, Korea, American and many other countries. I am very sorry to inform you that there is a temporary issue with Microsoft's activation server at the moment and some customers might experience this issue where Windows is displayed as not activated.

Our engineers are working tirelessly to resolve this issue and it is expected to be corrected within one to two business days, Daniel.

Hopefully it'll get fix soonest possible

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We are aware of reports that some customers’ Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise machines are not recognizing their licenses as activated. Users may receive the following notification: “Error: you are running Windows 10 Pro, but you have valid digital license for Windows 10 Home," or one of the following error codes 0X803F8001, 0xC004C003.

We are actively working to resolve this within 24 hours. You can still use your PC; however, the watermark will appear until activation is restored. Thank you for your patience.

We will update this post with additional information as needed and once activations are restored.

Paul...

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Anonymous

2018-11-08T09:10:14+00:00

I, too, have the same question. I upgraded by online download as soon as W10 came out and since then have let Microsoft update it as a developer, for interest. Suddenly at 03:33 apparently it deactivated.
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Anonymous

2018-11-08T09:06:59+00:00

I'm having same problem.. Machine is an HP workstation which originaly came with windows 7 pro. a couple of years ago I upgraded (free upgrade from MS) to windows 10 pro and all was fine till today. Now i'm seeing an 'Activate windows' water mark and activation fails. When I run the troubleshooter it is telling me that MS have an online home license associated to this machine! This has been on pro for 2 years, it never had a home license.

If I try to enter the original windows 7 pro key it tells me invalid key.
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Vijay A. Verma 104.9K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2018-11-08T08:57:19+00:00
1. Get help with Windows activation errors (includes Windows 10 activation troubleshooter) - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20527/...
2. If above doesn't work, To analyze the cause, I need to verify whether it is OEM or Retail or Volume and other details, I need the screenshot of following output
Windows Key+X > Click on either Powershell (Admin) or Command Prompt (Admin)

Copy below and paste into Powershell / Cmd windows and Enter

slmgr.vbs /dlv
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