A recently republished U.S. federal advisory warns that Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Activation Manager contains a cryptographic implementation flaw that can be exploited remotely to decrypt or tamper with activation and management traffic — an issue assigned CVE‑2025‑7970 and rated with a...
For organizations that have deployed Windows Server Datacenter Edition but now find themselves needing to switch to the more economical Standard Edition, the downgrade path is neither straightforward nor officially supported by Microsoft as an in-place process. Yet, this scenario is increasingly...
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When activation or validation of a Windows operating system fails, the frustration is often intensified by cryptic error messages and codes. One such persistent issue users encounter is the activation error code 0x8004FE33, which typically arises when a Windows device attempts to connect to the...
A message has appeared on some users (mainly Pro apparently) desktops saying Windows needs activating. Microsoft have acknowledged the fault and will release a fix asap:
Windows 10 suddenly deactivated
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Hey guys, it has been a while since I posted. I was having some terrible issues with my Windows 10 install.
I had some terrible issues with updates breaking my activation. I would go from 14393.1066 to 15063.0 or 15063.250 and my activation would tell me it either couldn't reach the activation...
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Tried to activate using one of the universal keys and got this error:
0xC004B100 error the activation server has determined this computer cannot be activated
So how do I try a different key?
Any Suggestions