Let's be clear that activation issues are between you and Microsoft. Do not pay anyone else to fix this. That is, I've seen too many folk pay pirates for crack.
Bob
I installed a new ops on my dell pc about a month ago {a valid code} I thought I had automatically activated it when I installed. Then yeasterday out of the blue I received this activation warning and a black desktop.So I tried to activate and It would accept the code but then when it went to next window and started to download it stoped and told me that activation failed so I tried to manually activate it this failed, I then tried changing the code this to failed! AWHHH!!! can anyone please help me? thank you!

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