I'm struggling to get my activation code to work, every time I enter the code, I get error 0xc004f050
When I'm in the settings menu, I keep getting a message "you need to activate windows before you can personalise this PC"
Any help would be appreciated
We will need a lot more info bud, see Activation troubleshooting - Windows 10 Forums
Run either tool - we just need some basic info to begin with.
See also Error Code 0xc004F050 Solved - Windows 10 Forums
May be a key/edition mismatch...
Hi
Thank you for helping, I run the activate troubleshooting link you attached, the report quoted a different key to what I have.
I've entered the key quoted on the report, initially I got past activation stage, but then got a message "unable to activate due to error OxcOO4c008
OK, give me some background on your key and installation... (Sorry I neglected to say to post the report you get- I need to see the info on your PC)
@Take a guess
You can delete the image... it has your key - BTW you can click it to mask but that's irrelevant now - click the Save Report button and post the report rather.
Sorry if I'm not understanding your instructions
Is this the report you require, Licensing Diag
Param([Parameter(Position=1)]
[switch]$Show = $false
)
$OutputFile = Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE -ChildPath "\Desktop\LicensingDiag.txt"
$CabFile = -join ($env:TEMP, "", $env:computername, (Get-Date -UFormat "_%Y-%m-%d_"), "diag.cab")
$Extracted = Join-Path $env:TEMP -ChildPath "\Extracted"
if (Test-Path($Extracted)) { Remove-Item $Extracted -Recurse -Force }
if (Test-Path($CabFile)) { Remove-Item $CabFile -Force }
if (Test-Path($OutputFile)) { Remove-Item $OutputFile -Force }
function MaskKey($PKey){
if ($Show -ne $true){
[string[]] $KeyArray = $PKey.Split('-')
for ($x = 0; $x -lt $KeyArray.Count-1; $x++) {
$KeyArray[$x] = "*****-"
}
return [string] $KeyArray -replace " ", ""
}
else {
return [string] $PKey
}
}
function Get-WindowsKey ($encoded) {
$HexString = [Convert]::FromBase64String($encoded) | Format-Hex | Select-Object -Expand Bytes | ForEach-Object { '0x{0:x2}' -f $_ }
[string[]] $digitalProductId = $HexString[52..66]
New-Variable -Name base24 -Value 'BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789' -Option Const
New-Variable -Name cryptedStringLength -Value 24 -Option Const
New-Variable -Name decryptionLength -Value 14 -Option Const
New-Variable -Name decryptedKey -Value ([String]::Empty)
$containsN = ($digitalProductId[$decryptionLength] -shr 3) -bAnd 1
$digitalProductId[$decryptionLength] = [Byte]($digitalProductId[$decryptionLength] -bAnd 0xF7)
for ($i = $cryptedStringLength; $i -ge 0; $i--) {
$digitMapIndex = 0
for ($j = $decryptionLength; $j -ge 0; $j--) {
$digitMapIndex = [Int16]($digitMapIndex -shl 8 -bXor $digitalProductId[$j])
$digitalProductId[$j] = [Byte][Math]::Floor($digitMapIndex / $base24.Length)
$digitMapIndex = [Int16]($digitMapIndex % $base24.Length)
}
$decryptedKey = $decryptedKey.Insert(0, $base24[$digitMapIndex])
}
if ([Boolean]$containsN){
$firstCharIndex = 0
for ($index = 0; $index -lt $cryptedStringLength; $index++)
{
if ($decryptedKey[0] -ne $base24[$index]) {
continue
}
$firstCharIndex = $index
break
}
$keyWithN = $decryptedKey
$keyWithN = $keyWithN.Remove(0, 1)
$keyWithN = $keyWithN.Substring(0, $firstCharIndex) + 'N' + $keyWithN.Remove(0, $firstCharIndex)
$decryptedKey = $keyWithN;
}
$returnValue = $decryptedKey
for ($t = 20; $t -ge 5; $t -= 5)
{
$returnValue = $returnValue.Insert($t, '-')
}
return $returnValue
}
Invoke-Expression -Command (Join-Path $env:SystemRoot -ChildPath "\system32\licensingdiag.exe -q") | Out-Null
#Create a folder and extract cab file
New-Item $Extracted -Type directory | Out-Null
Invoke-Expression -Command ('expand -F:* $CabFile $Extracted') | Out-Null
#We now have 2 sub-dir's CLIP and SPP in $Extracted folder
[xml] $xmlSPPData = Get-Content (Join-Path $Extracted -ChildPath "\SPP\SppDiagReport.xml")
$OAKey = $xmlSPPData.DiagReport.LicensingData.OA3ProductKey
$xmlSPPData.DiagReport.LicensingData.OA3ProductKey = MaskKey($OAKey)
if ([environment]::OSVersion.Version.Build -gt 14393) {
[xml] $xmlServerProps = $xmlSPPData.DiagReport.GenuineAuthz.ServerProps.Replace($OAKey,(MaskKey($OAKey)))
foreach ($node in $xmlServerProps.genuineAuthorization.genuineProperties) {
$ServerProps = "`r`n" + $node.InnerText
}
}
else {
$ServerProps = "`r`n" + $node.InnerText
}
$xmlSPPData.DiagReport.GenuineAuthz.ServerProps = $ServerProps.Replace(';',"`r`n" )
#Create ArrayLists to store info from each folder
$SPPInfo = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
$CLIPInfo = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
#Format XML
$SPPInfo.Add('--------- Licensing Data ---------')
foreach ($nodes in $xmlSPPData.DiagReport.ChildNodes)
{
foreach ($node in $nodes.ChildNodes )
{
$SPPInfo.Add($node.Name + ": " + $node.InnerText)
}
}
#Add H/W data
[xml] $xmlCLIP = Get-Content (Join-Path $Extracted -ChildPath "\CLIP\HardwareData.xml")
$CLIPInfo.Add(" `r`n" + "--------- Hardware Data ---------")
foreach ($nodes in $xmlCLIP.HardwareID.ChildNodes)
{
foreach ($node in $nodes)
{
$CLIPInfo.Add( "+" + $node.LocalName + ': ' + $node.path)
foreach ($element in $node.ChildNodes)
{
switch ($element.name){
'OSProductPfn' {$OSProductPfn = $element.InnerText}
'BackupProductKeyDefault' { $element.InnerText = MaskKey($element.InnerText)}
'LastBiosKey' { $element.InnerText = MaskKey($element.InnerText)}
'DigitalProductId' {if($Show -eq $true){$element.InnerText = Get-WindowsKey ($element.InnerText)}}
'DigitalProductId4' {if($Show -eq $true) {
$element.InnerText =[Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([Convert]::FromBase64String($element.InnerText)) -replace '[\W]', ""}}
else {$element.InnerText = "Encoded info redacted"}
}
switch ($Show){
$true {
if ($node.LocalName -ccontains'LegacyHWID') {$element.InnerText =[Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([Convert]::FromBase64String($element.InnerText)) -replace '[\W]', " "}
if ($node.LocalName -ccontains 'SMBIOS') {$element.InnerText =[Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([Convert]::FromBase64String($element.InnerText)) -replace '[\W]', " " }
}
$false {
#Remove unnecesary info for brevity
if ($element.name -eq 'DigitalProductId4') {$element.InnerText = "Encoded info redacted"}
if ($node.LocalName -ccontains'LegacyHWID') {$element.InnerText = "Encrypted info redacted"}
if ($node.LocalName -ccontains 'SMBIOS') {$element.InnerText = "Encrypted info redacted"}
}
}
$CLIPInfo.Add(" " + $element.name + ": " + $element.InnerText)
}
}
}
#Add Event log data
$SPPInfo.Add(" `r`n" + "--------- SPP Event log data ---------")
$XPathSPP = "*[System[Provider[@Name='Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP'] and (Level=2)]]"
#TO DO:
#$XPathTask = "*[System[Provider[@Name='Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP'] and EventID=1061]]"
$SPPEvents = Get-WinEvent -Path (Join-Path $Extracted -ChildPath '\SPP\SppDiagEvents.evtx') -FilterXPath $XPathSPP -ErrorAction Ignore
if ($SPPEvents.Count -ne 0) {
foreach ($SPPevent in $SPPEvents)
{
$SPPInfo.Add($SPPevent.Message)
}
}
else {
$SPPInfo.Add("No SPP event log errors found!")
}
#Get installed digital licences
$CLIPInfo.Add(" `r`n" + "--------- Clip Event log data ---------")
$XPathClip = "*[System[(EventID=116)]]" #These are only installed licences
$ClipEvents = Get-WinEvent -Path (Join-Path $Extracted -ChildPath '\CLIP\Client-Licensing.evtx') -FilterXPath $XPathClip -Oldest -ErrorAction Ignore
if ($ClipEvents.Count -ne 0) {
foreach ($ClipEvent in $ClipEvents)
{
if ($ClipEvent.Message.Contains("Microsoft.Windows.48")) {
$CLIPInfo.Add($ClipEvent.Message)
$CLIPInfo.Add("Digital License acquired: " + $ClipEvent.TimeCreated.ToLongDateString())
}
}
}
else
{
$CLIPInfo.Add("No Digital License entries found!")
}
#Check for digital licence installation errors
$CLIPInfo.Add(" `r`n" + "--------- Clip Event log errors ---------")
$XPathClip = "*[System[(Level=2)]]"
$ClipEvents = Get-WinEvent -Path (Join-Path $Extracted -ChildPath '\CLIP\Client-Licensing.evtx') -FilterXPath $XPathClip -Oldest -ErrorAction Ignore
if ($ClipEvents.Count -ne 0) {
foreach ($ClipEvent in $ClipEvents) {
$CLIPInfo.Add($ClipEvent.Message)
}
}
else {
$CLIPInfo.Add("No Digital License errors found!")
}
#Create the Output File with all gathered info
Set-Content -Path $OutputFile -Value $SPPInfo
Add-Content -Path $OutputFile -Value $CLIPInfo
#Clean up
Remove-Item $CabFile -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Remove-Item (Join-Path $env:TEMP "\*.etl") -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Remove-Item $Extracted -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Remove-Item (Join-Path $env:TEMP -ChildPath "\WindowsPolicyData.xml") -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Invoke-Expression $OutputFile
I checked your key - it is factory issued (which only comes built into the PC firmware or as a replacement from the big OEM companies (like Dell, HP, Lenovo etc) when one of their motherboards are replaced.
It's for another PC and won't activate on yours (yours does not have a factory key in the firmware)Code:Key Status : Valid PID : 00325-80798-63748-AAOEM Extended PID : 03258-03258-079-863748-02-2057-17763.0000-3272018 Active SKU ID : 0567073a-7d74-403b-b2d5-6b35da372d8d Product Description : Win 10 RTM Core OEM:DM Edition ID : Core Part Number : [TH]X19-99523 Product Key Channel : OEM:DM Eula Type : OEM Group ID : 3258
Where did you get the key from?
I purchased it from a premium seller on ebay, 1st one didn't work they sent another replacement key which now seems not to work
Due to my medical condition, being unemployed I can't afford the expense of a new MS key
I really do appreciate the time you've taken to help me understand what was wrong.
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