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Windows 11 not activating after mainboard replacement, troubleshooter doesn't run, can't get support
I work from home with my PC running Windows 11 Pro 25H2. My Windows license has a long lineage, starting with a retail Windows 8 DVD, which was successively updated for free to Windows 8.1, 10, and 1...
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