Hey all,

A month or 2 ago I bought an acer laptop with windows 8.1 pre-installed. Lately I have been getting notifications saying that my windows license will expire soon. I tried to activate, but no success. I found my windows key with a 3rd party tool since there is no sticker on my laptop with with the key. I tried to fill it in using slui 3, but that did not work either.

So I was getting annoyed by the constant notifications and tried to find another fix. I opened CMD as administrator and typed this in slmgr -rearm. After that I restarted my laptop and it seemed to work. I didnt get the notifications anymore. However when I checked if my  windows was activated at the windows activation settings it said that my windows is not activated and windows can't activate right now. Please try again later. I tried to fill in my windows key again, but its saying that it's incorrect. 

Is there a way to fix this? Thanks in advance.

edit; at  the right bottom corner of my desktop there is a "watermark" saying Windows 8.1 and the build number.

• Edited by emre koycu Sunday, March 29, 2015 2:59 PM

I ran the MGA diag tool and at windows validation status it says: Validation unsupported OS 

EK

So there is a problem with the key but without the entire MGA output we cannot tell you what.  I suspect the place where you purchased the machine used either a volume license (used in large corporations) or an Enterprise.  Please post the MGA output as previously requested.

Is it safe to post that info here?

EK

The only personal information is the key and that is obfuscated by MGA, so yes it is safe.

EK

Click the copy button and paste it into your next post

That doesn't work it gives me an error:

Failed to create output files, hr = 0x80070002. Please contact support.