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Win 10 deactivated itself?

Elixer

Elixer

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Odd one, booted up win 10 today, and I saw the watermark.
I knew it was already activated, so I looked, and it said activation servers down.
I clicked retry, and finally I was activated again.

Nothing at all changed in the system, in fact, that specific box was dormant for ~30 days, I just had to fire it up to test some things.

Anyone else run into this before?
I haven't had a system remain dormant as long as that one, but, I thought it wouldn't check again for activation unless something has changed?
 
Lol... well, yeah, but, I don't see why it defaults to needing activation if it was already activated, unless something has changes, which nothing was changed.
Seems like overkill, and I would have been PO'ed if this occurred someplace where I didn't have net access.
 
I've never seen watermark in Win 10. And I've installed dozens and dozens of unactivated Win 10 on computers and VM's.
 
TeknoBug said:
I've never seen watermark in Win 10. And I've installed dozens and dozens of unactivated Win 10 on computers and VM's.
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My test installs that I've done of 1511 using media created using the MS Media Creation Tool, revert to a watermark after a few days (3?).

Unknown how long that they will continue to function in that mode.
 
Elixer said:
Lol... well, yeah, but, I don't see why it defaults to needing activation if it was already activated, unless something has changes, which nothing was changed.
Seems like overkill, and I would have been PO'ed if this occurred someplace where I didn't have net access.
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This is a little concerning. I know Windows 7 checked every day it is online because every time I updated my version of VMWare Player, my Windows 7 VM would eventually tell me I needed to activate, due to the new virtual hardware. I say eventually because this one is on a VPN 98% of the time, which many times keeps it from running the check.

But a message because the activation servers are down? That doesn't seem right at all, and hopefully this is a one-time thing. FWIW I have two Windows 10 installs (one of them runs 24/7, and neither one has done this).
 
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