Windows 11 deactivated after 24h2 update

Anonymous
2024-10-02T10:16:31+00:00

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.

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cheers

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Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-08T11:43:23+00:00

    If I remember correctly I rolled Windows back to the previous version and it sort of working fine, at least I can use it. The strange thing is that you not supposed to personalize the settings if Windows is not activated but they are personalized. But I cannot personalize other settings without it asking me to Activate. I am NOT updating until they sort this mess out neither am I going to update Windows, although there appears to be a new update to the same problematical update. Who knows what's going on? For me, I'll leave my PC as it is and ........ wait.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-05-09T04:49:27+00:00

    can you please come back to this thread dave?
    maybe you remember me, i replaced a complete computer since windows screwed up my hardware somehow o.O
    now i got this nasty watermark while doing nothing wrong
    i reset windows to an installation before the error occured, still its happening now
    after i reset the system i also had to reinstall powershell
    I changed nothing about my hardware, I even bought and tried out a new license key but it won´t work
    troubleshooter tells me im offline and should try later again, since around 2 days ....

    when you could at least confirm that this error is purely windows related, it would give me some peace

    it really feels like the idea with windows 11 to not make the user standard admin was not the best move for quiet some users and companies. =(

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