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Windows deactivated out of the blue !
Dear forum readers,
It just happened minutes ago, I've got an "Activate Windows, Go to settings to activate Windows" watermark, and in the settings it indeed says that I've no product key or digital license.
Problem is, it's wrong. I've been using this laptop since 2014 now without any hardware change (what nears it most it my Nvidia driver update one week ago, but that's something I do every month), upgraded from legit 8.1 to 10 at the time it was free, and suddenly it's not activated any more. Dear MS, I hope you're not seriously expecting me to pay twice the price ? I've no problem with licensing enforcement, as long as it doesn't suddenly remove from my hands something I paid for, in all honesty.
I'm going to reboot to see if it changes anything. I'm somewhat fearful things would become worse if I try to go through the activation procedure since I didn't have to do this in the first place, after all. I would accept linking my digital license to my MS account, as long as it doesn't force me to link my whole admin account as well : I want all my accounts to be local only.
Any advices ? In case it comes from some defective hardware I didn't notice, is there a licensing log I could check that would point me to said hardware ?