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You may have dependencies that are corrupt.. run a diagnostic report to check for tampered files
See Activation troubleshooting - Windows 10 Forums
You may have dependencies that are corrupt.. run a diagnostic report to check for tampered files
See Activation troubleshooting - Windows 10 Forums
Version 1703 Build 15063.540 here and slui runs just fine for me. It opens Settings > Update & security > Activation and then opens the "Enter a product key" panel that you would get if you clicked "Chang product key" on that page. Nothing happens unless you enter a key in that box and click next. Even then, it has to be a valid key. And even then, you have to click one more yes before it does anything. You'd have to work at it to un activate your system.![]()
Keep in mind that I'm not trying to activate a key. I'm just curious as to why only slui 4 works for me.
Did you try what Superfly posted? "slui.exe 4" does nothing when I run it from an admin command prompt? Nothing I can see on screen anyway.
I ran the advanced Diagnostic test and it came back clean. It ran in about a second so I don't think it is testing much. Just looks like it deals with product keys and such.
If you get slui 4 to run then it will probably get my slui/slui 3 to run. Let me know if you fix your problem and how you did it.
I don't actually have a problem per say? I can just go to Settings > Update & security > Activation > Change product key and change my product key the normal way. I do it fairly often actually. I switch from Pro to Education or Enterprise that way without reinstalling. What is the Settings menu slui.exe 4 is supposed to take you too?
ADT uses MS built-in diagnostics to test activation... if by 'clean' you mean no tampered items (and no event log errors) then there are non-activation files that are corrupted... running sfc may help to test integrity of those.
BTW: Slui.exe uses multiple switches (including error code checking)
slui 4 doesn't work for me either now. slui (and slui 3) take me to new settings which is useless - it just requests a key. I can't figure out how to get to the telephone activation that slui 4 did.
It should take you to a screen like this to do phone activation:
Activate Windows 8 by Phone
It was quietly dropped in 1703 perhaps? It now just does nothing whatsoever.