Hey guys, I'd really appreciate some help here.
Much thanks in advance to anyone who can solve this problem...
I took my Acer laptop into a repair shop to fix a broken power button and ever since then Windows 8 has been asking me to activate. I don't know how this happened as the repair guy wasn't supposed to make any software changes and as far as I know he didn't.
Now I'm unable to apply any windows updates to my laptop.
Windows periodically pops up the Windows 8 PC Settings asking me to activate. When I Click the "Activate" button in PC settings nothing happens but a message saying "Activation Error not found".
I've tried my best to trouble shoot this myself but I've gotten nowhere.
I've tried to activate using the slui 3 command, and initially the dialogue says that my product key is working and to click continue, but when I'm taken to the next window I receive ERROR 0xC0000022
When I try to activate over the phone using slui 4, I receive the same error and also the activation dialogue only displays numers 1-9 rather than "sets" of numbers for me to enter over the phone.
I've reset Windows 8 to factory defaults using the thoroughly clean method and I'm STILL receiving the same error.
I'm losing my mind here! I know there's some real tech wizards on here and I'm really hoping for some help. Thanks again for your time...
Much thanks in advance to anyone who can solve this problem...
I took my Acer laptop into a repair shop to fix a broken power button and ever since then Windows 8 has been asking me to activate. I don't know how this happened as the repair guy wasn't supposed to make any software changes and as far as I know he didn't.
Now I'm unable to apply any windows updates to my laptop.
Windows periodically pops up the Windows 8 PC Settings asking me to activate. When I Click the "Activate" button in PC settings nothing happens but a message saying "Activation Error not found".
I've tried my best to trouble shoot this myself but I've gotten nowhere.
I've tried to activate using the slui 3 command, and initially the dialogue says that my product key is working and to click continue, but when I'm taken to the next window I receive ERROR 0xC0000022
When I try to activate over the phone using slui 4, I receive the same error and also the activation dialogue only displays numers 1-9 rather than "sets" of numbers for me to enter over the phone.
I've reset Windows 8 to factory defaults using the thoroughly clean method and I'm STILL receiving the same error.
I'm losing my mind here! I know there's some real tech wizards on here and I'm really hoping for some help. Thanks again for your time...
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Acer
- CPU
- Intel Core i5
- Memory
- 4 Gig DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Browser
- Google Chrome
- Antivirus
- McAfee