Win10 activation...

Woke up to this yesterday as well and spent about an hour this morning trying to work out wtf? But it activated fine this evening. Glitch clearly on Microsofts end..
 
My Win 10 Pro automatically updated activation at around 20:00
 
just wanted to find out if anyone with windows 10 pro having their windows show its not activated? and the system prompting you to go to settings and activate same?

i now have a see through block at the bottom right of my screen saying " activate windows, go to settings"

I've read a few articles that talk about the problem but nothing about a fix thus far?

thanks
 
https://redmondmag.com/articles/2018/11/09/windows-10-pro-activation-problems.aspx

Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Pro Activation Problems Will Clear in 24 Hours

Microsoft on Friday updated its advice to Windows 10 Pro edition users frustrated by a recent activation glitch, suggesting that the problem will get automatically resolved in a day.
Here's Microsoft's latest update on the issue as of the morning of Nov. 9:
Any affected customer can continue to use Windows 10 Pro as usual, and the watermark will disappear within 24 hours as activation is automatically restored.
To manually resolve the issue: Select the Start button, select Settings > Update & security > Activation, and then select Troubleshoot to run the Activation Troubleshooter. (If the device is already activated, the Troubleshoot option will not appear.)​
The so-called "watermark" is a message on the screens of Windows 10 users suggesting that they are running improperly licensed software. It'll go away for properly licensed users, Microsoft explained.
Windows 10 Pro users earlier this week had reported getting such activation problems. They complained in a Reddit Windows 10 discussion forum and a Microsoft community forum, for instance. Some users reported that their Windows 10 Pro editions were getting flagged as being Home editions.
Microsoft acknowledged the problem on Thursday, adding that such users may have received error codes 0X803F8001 and 0xC004C003. Microsoft promised a fix in "two business days."
The glitch was "a problem with the activation servers," according to Microsoft's early description in the community post. It affected users in "Japan, Korea, American and many other countries," the post indicated. While forum participants had described the problem early on as affecting the Pro edition of Windows 10, Microsoft later suggested the glitch may have affected "some customers' Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise machines."
The extent of Microsoft's service activation problem for users isn't clear. However, the count at Microsoft's community forum listed 1,224 respondents as saying they had the same question about the problem. So far, there's been no explanation about why Microsoft's activation servers failed to work properly.
 
Yeah so it seems sometimes you may be blocked from the authentication system depending on system changes, but generally a linked windows account does the trick.

All be told, you dont need to activate.. windows is fully functional without being activated, and Microsoft admit to this and even state in the EULA that activation isnt necessary if you own a legit copy. Just an annoying water mark prompt...
 
"Run Troubleshooter" fixed mine when I saw it a couple of days ago
 
Mine started a couple of days ago. Tried everything in the book. Nothing worked.

So, I popped over to eBay and bought a Windows 10 Pro license for $3 from some shady seller, changed my license key and all is fine now. Same shady seller told me the keys are legit and there will be no issues, if there is, they will keep replacing it.
 
To OP,
...this question should have been posted the Software thread because it has nothing to do with Development.
 
[)roi(] said:
To OP,
...this question should have been posted the Software thread because it has nothing to do with Development.
Click to expand...

It’s the confusing name of the forum “Software and Web Development”

It should be renamed to “Programming and Web Development” or something like that
 
Same story as OP. Next day it just worked again.
 
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