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Windows can’t activate right now – Follow Up

January 31, 2013 by Dan B. Lee Leave a Comment

I had originally posted a while back in regards to getting the “Windows can’t activate right now…” error in windows 8. The easy fix for this is to run a command prompt as an administrator and execute the following command:

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slmgr.vbs -ipk "YOUR_PRODUCT_KEY"
 

This will apparently work if you are trying to change the product key to something else. However, if you’d simply like to clear out all of the product keys, you can run this command with this switch:

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slmgr.vbs –upk
 

As Windows States here (For Windows 7, but the same applies to 8), “…the slmgr.vbs –upk command clears all product keys that are present on the computer. For example, these may include the Multiple Activation Key (MAK) and the Key Management Service (KMS) key.”

And for you cmd junkies, you can activate it right after you enter your new product key using this:

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slmgr.vbs /ato
 

Or you could just click activate in the explorer window. Keep in mind, you must be running Command Prompt as an administrator in order for this to work!

Cheers!

 

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Filed Under: Microsoft Windows, Windows 8 Preview & Release Tagged With: Activation, Command Prompt, Windows 8

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