You'll find it on the left side of the window. Click Change product key. It's a link in the middle of the Activation page. Doing so opens a new window. Enter your Windows 10 product key. Type the activation key that came with your copy of Windows 10 into the text box. You can usually find the product key on the CD box if you bought a hard copy, or in a confirmation email from Microsoft if you bought a Windows 10 product key online.
If you bought a key for Windows 7, 8, or 8. Click Next. It's in the lower-right corner of the window.
This will prompt Microsoft to attempt to verify your copy of Windows. Follow any on-screen instructions. If your copy of Windows is legitimate, you should receive a notification that it has been accepted, though you may need to enter additional information if prompted.
Method 2. Make sure that you're on an administrator account. You'll need to be on an account that has administrator privileges in order to make changes to your computer's registry. Type in regedit. This will search your computer for the Registry Editor command. Click regedit. It's a teal collection of blocks at the top of the Start window.
Click Yes when prompted. Doing so will open the Registry Editor window. Go to the "Activation" key. Right-click Manual. It's a blue-and-white icon on the right side of the window. A drop-down menu will appear. If your mouse doesn't have a right-click button, click the right side of the mouse, or use two fingers to click the mouse.
If your computer uses a trackpad instead of a mouse, use two fingers to tap the trackpad or press the bottom-right side of the trackpad. Click Modify. It's at the top of the drop-down menu. A window will appear.
Change the value data. In the "Value data" text box, replace the "0" with a "1", then click OK. You may be prompted to confirm this choice.
If so, click Yes or OK before proceeding. Right-click NotificationDisabled. This item is also on the right side of the page. Change the value data to 1. This will prevent the activation notification from appearing on your desktop. Restart your computer.
Repeat this process if the notification reappears. While removing the watermark notification will work temporarily, you may need to disable it again in the future. Method 3. Click the search bar. It's at the bottom of the Start window. Type in task manager. This will search your computer for the Task Manager application. Click Task Manager. It's at the top of the Start window. Open the Run window. If this doesn't work, re-open Start , type in run , and click Run. Unfortunately, regardless of the licensing terms, persons still abuse the program, either giveaway product keys or resell it on auction sites.
Microsoft licenses it in good faith that customers won't do so, but I guess human nature wins out. In your case, what probably happened is, you bought an MSDN licensed key, which carries up to 10 activations unlike full packaged retail licenses which only carry 1 activation.
The person who sold it to you probably sold it to 10 other persons. Somewhere along the way, one of those persons might have installed it on a second system, activated it, because it went past 10 activation threshold, Microsoft detected it that it was being abused and blocked the key from further use.
Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. A: The pilot version of this software periodically contacts Microsoft after validation. The software checks whether a newer settings file is available and downloads the file if one is found.
The settings file gives Microsoft the ability to update how often reminders are displayed and to disable the program if necessary during the test period. Unlike validation, which sends system information to Microsoft, this operation is limited to the download of the new settings file. No additional information is sent to Microsoft. Let me make the distinction between the Genuine Advantage validation and the Genuine Advantage notification.
The notification is what people are objecting to -- being bugged with notifications and the frequent phoning home. If you want to disable this behavior, there are a number of ways to accomplish that. I didn't remove it on my machines, but I did disable it so I'm no longer bothered by it. Initially I was blocking it with my firewall.
You can see here that Outpost Pro asked for permission each time to allow wgatray. Each time I got this warning, I chose to block it. But I found a better long term solution that's easy and doesn't have any harmful repercussions. I downloaded and ran Autoruns from SysInternals, clicked on the Winlogon tab, and unchecked WgaLogon as seen in this screenshot. Apologies for the small image but the space is limited. You can click here for a larger view. Now WGAtray. It can be re-enabled simply by checking the adjacent box.
I like this method because you, the user, are in complete control. Eventually the Genuine Advantage Notification won't be an issue, but for now, this is the best workaround I've found and doesn't involved altering or cracking the software or using tools by unknown coders.
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