Hi! I bought my laptop new about 3 years ago with windows 8. I updatd to windows 8.1 some time ago. Recently (a few months ago) I had a bunch of problems with my laptop and I brought it to a tech place to get it fixed. When I got it back I've had some thing in the corner of my screen saying "activate windows, go to PC settings to activate windows", and it also says "Windows 8.1 Pro, Build 9600". I don't think I ever purchased Windows 8.1 Pro. My sister has the exact same laptop as me and she has regular windows 8.1. I ran the superfly key finder and it found an installed key and an OEM key. They are both different. I tried using each of these to activate my windows but I got the error code 0x8007007B with the text "the file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."
I don't know why my windows won't activate! My sister has the exact same laptop and hers runs 8.1 without a problem, and she can find her key using Belarc. Also, hers doesn't run Windows 8.1 pro, just regular 8.1. I don't know how I ended up with 8.1 pro? Anyway, what should I do?
Hi sistersister512,
Chances are that the tech incorrectly installed Pro when in fact they should have installed the core version.
If ShowKey displays "Win 8.1 RTM" only (i.e without "Pro" or "N" or "SingleLanguage" in the description), then you will need to download that version and install it. It will activate automatically with the key built-into the firmware. To confirm please post the OEM Edition description that ShowKey displays.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- PC-DOS v1.0
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- IBM
- CPU
- Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
- Memory
- 16K, 640K max
- Graphics Card(s)
- What's that?
- Sound Card
- Not quite
- Screen Resolution
- 80 X 24 text
- Hard Drives
- dual 160KB 5.25-inch disk drives