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"Activate Windows"
Something is going to happen with win10????
After waking from the monitor's screen save mode, I see a msg at the lower right corner of the desktop, just above the taskbar that says "Active Windows" (1st line) then "Go to Settings to activate Windows" on the 2nd line! Or did one of the defender's update mess some stuff up?! Will do it to see what happens........ |
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On 2018-11-09, lew wrote:
Something is going to happen with win10???? After waking from the monitor's screen save mode, I see a msg at the lower right corner of the desktop, just above the taskbar that says "Active Windows" (1st line) then "Go to Settings to activate Windows" on the 2nd line! Or did one of the defender's update mess some stuff up?! Will do it to see what happens........ Went to activate & found that my copy of win10 was deactivated. Tried to activate & the response claims a problem with activation. clicked on troubleshooting & then win10 got activated???? Last cumalative update was on 10/26/2018 but did not get a msg to activate until today. Wonder if micro**** purged their database of activated win10 pro. Don't think it's a virus or trojan........but then again a back door?? |
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"lew" wrote
| Went to activate & found that my copy of win10 was deactivated. | https://betanews.com/2018/11/08/wind...mber-of-users/ Big flub on Microsoft's part that they're apparently trying to fix.... Or not. I guess you'll find out depending on whether it takes care of itself or whether they start asking you for money. |
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 02:14:50 -0000 (UTC), lew
wrote: On 2018-11-09, lew wrote: Something is going to happen with win10???? After waking from the monitor's screen save mode, I see a msg at the lower right corner of the desktop, just above the taskbar that says "Active Windows" (1st line) then "Go to Settings to activate Windows" on the 2nd line! Or did one of the defender's update mess some stuff up?! Will do it to see what happens........ Went to activate & found that my copy of win10 was deactivated. Tried to activate & the response claims a problem with activation. clicked on troubleshooting & then win10 got activated???? Last cumalative update was on 10/26/2018 There's the problem. There's no 26th month. but did not get a msg to activate until today. Wonder if micro**** purged their database of activated win10 pro. Don't think it's a virus or trojan........but then again a back door?? Your date was wrong when you first activated. |
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Lucifer wrote:
lew wrote: Last cumalative update was on 10/26/2018 There's the problem. There's no 26th month. But there is a 26th day in October! You're claiming you have never seen the mm/dd/yyyy datestamp format ever used before? Must've been one of those senior moments. |
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lew wrote:
clicked on troubleshooting & then win10 got activated???? Same result, although not early in the day when I first saw the watermark: https://www.zdnet.com/article/window...sues-resolved/ "Around 5 p.m. ET, I started hearing reports from users on Twitter that their activation issues seemed to be resolved. Users were told to try going to Settings Update & Security Activation and then select Troubleshoot to run the Activation Troubleshooter to try to restore correct Activation status." -- Joel Crump |
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 02:14:50 -0000 (UTC), lew
wrote: On 2018-11-09, lew wrote: Something is going to happen with win10???? After waking from the monitor's screen save mode, I see a msg at the lower right corner of the desktop, just above the taskbar that says "Active Windows" (1st line) then "Go to Settings to activate Windows" on the 2nd line! Or did one of the defender's update mess some stuff up?! Will do it to see what happens........ Went to activate & found that my copy of win10 was deactivated. Tried to activate & the response claims a problem with activation. clicked on troubleshooting & then win10 got activated???? Last cumalative update was on 10/26/2018 but did not get a msg to activate until today. Wonder if micro**** purged their database of activated win10 pro. Don't think it's a virus or trojan........but then again a back door?? Read he https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/08/mi...ues-right-now/ |
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On Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:12:06 -0500, "Joel" posted:
lew wrote: clicked on troubleshooting & then win10 got activated???? Same result, although not early in the day when I first saw the watermark: https://www.zdnet.com/article/window...sues-resolved/ "Around 5 p.m. ET, I started hearing reports from users on Twitter that their activation issues seemed to be resolved. Users were told to try going to Settings Update & Security Activation and then select Troubleshoot to run the Activation Troubleshooter to try to restore correct Activation status." This incident points out to the question: If some day an attacker would be able to destroy the activation server: Would whole the word be offline? |
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"Jürgen Meyer" wrote
| This incident points out to the question: | If some day an attacker would be able to destroy the activation server: | Would whole the word be offline? It points to a lot of questions. when they started activation Microsoft said that when XP support ended they'd "probably" release a master key. They never did. |
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Jürgen Meyer wrote:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:12:06 -0500, "Joel" posted: lew wrote: clicked on troubleshooting & then win10 got activated???? Same result, although not early in the day when I first saw the watermark: https://www.zdnet.com/article/window...sues-resolved/ "Around 5 p.m. ET, I started hearing reports from users on Twitter that their activation issues seemed to be resolved. Users were told to try going to Settings Update & Security Activation and then select Troubleshoot to run the Activation Troubleshooter to try to restore correct Activation status." This incident points out to the question: If some day an attacker would be able to destroy the activation server: Would whole the word be offline? That would depend on how the OS behaves after such an incident happens. It could give 30 days grace. It could give 3 days grace. It could lock up. Windows 10 does not appear to be all that aggressive about enforcement. But then again, there's no way to test the state space, to understand what responses it's got. An activation issue generated "internally", is not exactly easy to study before it happens. The best way to test, would be to install Win10 on hardware that's never had a Microsoft OS, and see if you're locked out after 30 days. I don't think I've seen any of my Win10 VMs lock up, and I don't think they're activated. The watermark only shows up, once in a while, and usually after an attempt to use Windows Update. But enforcement still has to be there, because people are buying copies of it for $150 each. OS installations which have an expiry date (some of the Insider editions have had a very tight expiry setting), that would be a different matter. You can use "slmgr /dlv" and check the expiry date field there, while at the same time checking the activation status. And a separate mechanism is the signing on winload.exe. If the signing expires, you lose the ability to boot. This is one thing that prevents certain ISOs I have here, from booting so you can do an install with them. Paul |
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On 11/08/18 18:03, lew wrote:
Something is going to happen with win10???? After waking from the monitor's screen save mode, I see a msg at the lower right corner of the desktop, just above the taskbar that says "Active Windows" (1st line) then "Go to Settings to activate Windows" on the 2nd line! Or did one of the defender's update mess some stuff up?! Will do it to see what happens........ did you get DOWNgraded to 'Home' from 'Pro'? Like this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/1...10_activation/ HA HA HA HA (Schadenfreude, yeah) -- (aka 'Bombastic Bob' in case you wondered) 'Feeling with my fingers, and thinking with my brain' - me 'your story is so touching, but it sounds just like a lie' "Straighten up and fly right" |
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