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Gidday
I updated my computer today to 24H2 and after it rebooted it requested me to activate my copy of Windows Home. I attempted to using the key that I have but it says that it can't.
I have inserted a screenshot below. If you need any further information please let me know.
cheers
col
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Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.
1
Where did you get your Windows licence was that pre-installed on the PC or did you purchase a full retail Windows licence from Microsoft or from a 3rd party retailer?
Or is your Windows licence based on a previous Windows 7 or 8 licence?
2
What is the last 5 characters of the product key you are trying to activate Windows with?
The desktop came with Windows 11 pre-installed...
And the last 5 digits are 7MHX6
cheers
col
Sorry, I was offline, is this the key you are trying to re-activate Windows with?
RC83G-CNHWX-P3M7T-C69RY-7MHX6
No...
cheers
col
In that case, right click your Start Button, then just type cmd and on the resulting list, right click Command Prompt and select 'Run as Administrator'.
Run this command and press Enter:
slmgr /rilc
When that completes, close Command Prompt.
Then open the activation page in the Settings app and select the Troubleshoot option, you may need to run that a couple of times, does that get Windows activated?
