Recent content by mfi10011

Note that I had used the "bad" autounattend.xml with the ProductKey entry on many installations without activation issues, but I believe this is the first laptop I used it with that was originally shipped with Windows 10 S Mode which triggered these activation issues - the rest were shipped with...

That was it, the autounattend.xml generator I used added a ProductKey entry with all zeroes, and normally Windows would stop and ask for a Product Key. Once the entry was removed, the screen was skipped and the reinstall was complete, and it activated normally as expected. Impressed with...

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I purchased an HP laptop model 15-dw3033dx from Best Buy a few years ago. These had Windows 10 in S-Mode preinstalled. First thing I did after OOBE and initial activation was to go to the Windows Store and switch the laptop out of S-Mode, then I did a clean install of Windows 10 Home. I run...