Really struggling with this - hope someone can help.
A friend's Dell was not accepting updates - I think he had done a 'refresh' as he had not lost any files.
I've now done a full Windows 8 reset / reinstall from within Windows thinking it will sort it. However it still has the same issue. Within System - Windows activation - Product ID: not available
Within PC Setting - Activation - Activation error description not found.
Then because of this the software protection service will not start. Updates won't install etc.
The showkey script I found on this forum says 'OEM Key: Key not found'
There is no key on the machine - I presume it should be found by Windows from the bios but this doesn't see to be happening.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
A friend's Dell was not accepting updates - I think he had done a 'refresh' as he had not lost any files.
I've now done a full Windows 8 reset / reinstall from within Windows thinking it will sort it. However it still has the same issue. Within System - Windows activation - Product ID: not available
Within PC Setting - Activation - Activation error description not found.
Then because of this the software protection service will not start. Updates won't install etc.
The showkey script I found on this forum says 'OEM Key: Key not found'
There is no key on the machine - I presume it should be found by Windows from the bios but this doesn't see to be happening.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8