activation issues

Describes the steps to take to work around specific error codes that may occur when you use Volume Activation. Link Removed

Describes an issue that occurs if you install Windows Vista Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 by using volume-licensed media, and the activation wizard cannot connect to a Key Management Service host computer. Provides two methods to resolve this issue Link Removed

After an update on the computer from windows, it now says that it is not a genuine copy of windows. I have windows 7 ultimate 64bit. i tried to do a system restore to a few days ago. still didn't fix anything. i downloaded the MGADiag.exe tool and here is what it spit out. I looked around...

Anybody here who knows the solution to this error message : "Windows not genuine" after installing updates from Microsoft, I already activated my copy of Windows 7 five months ago, everything is doing fine until I downloaded the automatic updates from Microsoft last night, I called MS...

I recently did a clean install of my system. I had previously used the Family Pack key 3 times on 3 separate computers. I did the clean install on one of those three computers but now it won't recognize the key, even though it is legit. Is this a known issue? and is there a way to fix it?

I'm trying to get Network Discovery to stay on, but it always reverts to off. In trying to activate the UPnP service for this but get the error message 1079..the account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process. This may be...

Hi everybody! It is my first post here so forgive any mistakes I make. I have a laptop Acer Aspire 4315 with 2 disks. One XP and one Windows 7 I had a problems with the key activating my windows 7 and for that reason I downloaded again Windows 7 Professional. I can do it for free as a...

I never noticed this until today when I went to add more space to the Windows 7 drive on my disk. Even though I had Windows XP and then installed Windows 7 my computer shows Windows 7 as Drive C and Windows XP as Drive D. I have no idea how this occurred since i presumed Windows 7 would auto...

Hi, im new here. Today i tried to activate windows 7 ultimate with this: when it finished it restarted automatically and then it did not start. This appears when i turn my pc up: Link Removed What can i do? I have very important files in my computer. Thank you very much.

I'd planned on upgrading my motherboard from a Gigabyte 780G to a 785G model but just found out that if you use the upgrade version on W7, it has to be installed on the hard drive, you can't just put in your XP CD to prove you have a legitimate copy of XP. I was thinking of changing the...

Everytime I log in, I get a "Windows Activation" screen, saying activate Windows now the activation period has expired. Then it gives me the option to activate now or activate later, why is this? I have the windows 7 release cand. and isin't it supposed to expire in like 2010? Please help...

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask this on, but I have been having some major problems with my computer recently. I am dual booted with XP and 7 on two separate partitions. We got the USB internet modem from Verizon Wireless yesterday to try it out, our house in the country...