"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........

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??

"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.

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.

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.

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

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/

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?

"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.

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

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)


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