I have had my new desktop for a few months now and happy with it, but a sign has appeared at the right hand bottom of my screen saying "Activate Windows". Go to settings to activate windows.

I did that and there is a long story in red writing which starts "Cannot activate windows because ---------------

The computer is working well and doing everything I want, so do I really need to bother about this? Thanks.

I bought once online from Lazada a low priced no-name laptop with Win 10 preinstalled and fully working.

No need for me to perform any installation and activation.

Worked fine for a couple months and then Win 10 opened with request to activate.

Would not work anymore,

Turns out the pre-installed Win 10 was a limited time factory install.

I binned the thing.

And bought a brand-name new one.

With Win 10 pre-loaded and ready for me to install and activate.

No need for piracy ........

 

Download windows of your choice from Microsoft

Straight onto a bootable usb it creates

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/

 

Search for GitHub NiREvil

Then follow the instructions to use windows power shell.

23 hours ago, BritManToo said:

No need for piracy ........

 

Download windows of your choice from Microsoft

Straight onto a bootable usb it creates

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/

 

Search for GitHub NiREvil

Then follow the instructions to use windows power shell.

Thanks for your help but I am not computer literate  enough to understand it. also the link is not working.

Windows 10 or Windows 11?

Interesting, used this to activate a corporate version of office 2013 and it worked. Putting in a purchased code had previously not worked.