This is what you need to do first when you get Windows activation issues on Windows 11 or Windows 10 computers. To activate Windows with a digital license, you must have a valid internet connection.

Microsoft closed a Windows 7 / 8 key loophole last month, and now people are experiencing issues reactivating some Windows 10 / 11 installs. Microsoft closed a Windows 7 / 8 key loophole last month, ...

I have a windows 7 license. I used it for the mac mini I had for HTPC and likely upgraded it to W10. When I got the new 12600K, I transferred the license to that without issues. Then my new ...

In an unexpected twist, a Microsoft support engineer resorted to running an unofficial 'crack' on a customer's Windows PC after a genuine copy of the operating system failed to activate normally. It ...

Windows Activation Error 0x80070520 is one of the many Activation errors users encounter while switching to a new laptop or PC or upgrading to a newer version of ...