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[Context: I would like to do an in-place repair upgrade. I am running Version 1803 (OS Build 17134.1) because since that upgrade Windows Update has always failed. The Windows Update service is disabled, and any attempt to enable it is met with "Access is Denied". Dism /Online /Cleanup-image /Restore-health runs for some time, but ultimately exits with Error: 1058 ("The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.") A look at the dism log reveals that "The Service" in question is of course... Windows Update (that is, the very service which --because it is fixed "disabled" -- Microsoft instructed me to run dism to enable. Sigh. Tweaking.com ran to completion very successfully -- but changed nothing about WIndows Update being disabled or the "Access is Denied" error when i try to enable it. I had great hopes for an in-place repair upgrade, but have hit TWO snags which seem to be PURELY a problem with the in-place upgrade. Hence I bother you here.]
I downloaded an .iso of version 1909 and used Rufus to make a USB install stick. (My windows install is UEFI, and Rufus seems to make TWO partitions on the USB stick, a tiny FAT partition that loads an NTFS filesystem and then runs setup.exe on a big NTFS partition.). I click on "setup.exe" and go through all the screens in your tutorial until I tell it "Not at the moment" when it asks if it should get upgrades. Then it goes to "Preparing" and the next thing i see is:
"Windows 10 Setup / Setup has failed to validate the product key" and a close button. I assure you that it is a genuine activated copy of Windows 10, activated with a retail standalone license. (slmgr /xpr returns Windows(R), Professional edition; the machine is permanently activated). I know my product key. Can I do something to get the damn in-place upgrade to continue?
2. Actually, i needed to know the system default lanugage of my current install, because I know from your tutorial that i can't do an in-place repair upgrade until the installation media matches my install. "Luckily" you have a tutorial which gives me THREE different ways to find this information:
a. An elevated Power Shell tells me:
b .the elevated command prompt tells me:
c. and the registry says
Is it "majority rules" or "2 out of 3 ain't bad" -- so I need en-GB install media to do the in-place upgrade; or do i discount the command liine since it's now deprecated and only pay attention to PowerShell -- which doesn't mention anything but en-US.
First however i must get my product key recognized. Is there anything I can do (other than just single boot Arch Linux)?
THank you very much