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Windows 11 keeps asking me to activate windows
- Hi,
That's great, as you may know Windows 11 is still under testing and development and when you share a feedback, the Windows team would be able to investigate and check what causing the problem.
Eid Mubarak my friend.
Yesterday, I submitted the feedback to Microsoft and am awaiting their reply.
That's great, as you may know Windows 11 is still under testing and development and when you share a feedback, the Windows team would be able to investigate and check what causing the problem.
Hi Deleted,
For now I will just wait and see if they eventually fix the bug because Windows 11 is such a big improvement to what Windows 10 had and I love the way Windows 11 looks and feels. I didn't like Windows 10. I only used that version because the software I used to write Android apps is available in Windows and not Mac.
By the way, I also love to be around horses. Many years ago when I was in my early 20's, I did hot walking around the barn area at Belmont Raceway located in Queens for some time. That was a fun time.
https://kb.parallels.com/en/114051
I am not sure if this still works- Step 4: If the troubleshooter fails to activate your copy of Windows 10, you will see a link labeled I changed hardware on this device recently.
Step 5: Click the I changed hardware on this device recently link to see a page where you need to enter your Microsoft account email address as well as password.
Step 6: You need to select your Windows 10 PC from the devices list, check the box labeled This is the device I am using right now and then click the Activate button to activate your copy of Windows 10.
Does this work if you do the troubleshooter?
Sorry, if I am unable to help, it is hard to test this out since my computer has a activated licnese. - HI Emad,
I understand your frustration, not sure what caused it though Parrell's doesn't officially support Windows 11 yet.
I see, it won't accept the license, probably due to that it is a beta build. Did you get a support agent to fix?
Best to just wait or get back to Windwos 10. Are you able to go back to 10 and make sure the license is there than do it again?
Thanks,
Shawn
PS: This is probably just a bug normal for insider preview builds Hi tallinn1964
When I had my older MacBook I was running the Intel version of Windows 10 on a Parallels Desktop VM. My license key came from that install of Windows 10 which is many years old. When I purchased my current MacBook which is ARM based, I installed the ARM version of Windows 10 which I got from Microsoft Insiders onto the VM. That version never asked me to activate the install twice regardless of how many times the automatic updates for Windows 10 for ARM where installed. My problems only started when the automatic updates were for Windows 11 for ARM. Each of the Windows 11 updates worked for around 2 hours just like the previous Windows 10 for ARM did. While I was using each update, I got nagging reminders to activate Windows even though the software was activated. Some bug in one of the updates caused all new builds to keep nagging me to Activate windows, so I gave in and contacted Microsoft to purchase another license key. I tried to enter that key into the activate screen and it refused to accept that newly purchased product key so I got a refund. This is clearly some kink of bug if it doesn't accept any valid license key. I even called them and also sent feedback to Microsoft through the feedback process of Windows 11 but they won't get back to me which is very frustrating. They really need to fix that bug or do something that will stop those nagging reminders.- Probably not. The given command only works on PCs where the windows activation key is stored in BIOS by the OEM. If you get a blank response on an activated Windows installation that means you have what is called a "digital license" bound to your MS account. There is no way to retrieve an activation code for that kind of license - tools that do retrieve one will give you a well-known standard activation code that does not work with a new Windows install. However, if you install W11 with that MS account on the same machine you had W10 running with this license it should be activated right from the start.
Hi Deleted
I'm assuming you wanted me to type that into the command prompt. I tried it but Windows only responds "OA3xOriginalProductKey" as shown in my screen shot which is just text and not the product key.
Is there another way to get the product key?
- wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey
CMD Admin command to find original product key. - Hopefully, they will be able to suss things out with the software and give me a solution I can use to fix the issue and hopefully use my existing product key that I was using for Windows 10 from my old MacBook even though I don't have that key written down anywhere now because it's quite an old key.
