When did I ever say that the current Win install was with a general
license key ????

jumping to conclusions.

The laptop h=came with this OS installed and with the key it came with.

I said if necessary i could use the general license key but have chosen
not to.

So far, still not request for activation and this only happened once
after several months of on-line use and now another month or so later
still no activation request.

What do you make of that ?