Hey all,

A month or 2 ago I bought an acer laptop with windows 8.1 pre-installed. Lately I have been getting notifications saying that my windows license will expire soon. I tried to activate, but no success. I found my windows key with a 3rd party tool since there is no sticker on my laptop with with the key. I tried to fill it in using slui 3, but that did not work either.

So I was getting annoyed by the constant notifications and tried to find another fix. I opened CMD as administrator and typed this in slmgr -rearm. After that I restarted my laptop and it seemed to work. I didnt get the notifications anymore. However when I checked if my  windows was activated at the windows activation settings it said that my windows is not activated and windows can't activate right now. Please try again later. I tried to fill in my windows key again, but its saying that it's incorrect. 

Is there a way to fix this? Thanks in advance.

edit; at  the right bottom corner of my desktop there is a "watermark" saying Windows 8.1 and the build number.

• Edited by emre koycu Sunday, March 29, 2015 2:59 PM

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Hi emre,

If your laptop comes with windows 8.1 pre-installed, it should be activated by Acer OEM key which is managed by Acer which should never expire. This key should be bind to your computer and keep Windows system being activated automatically. If you didnt do any hardware changing recently, we suggest you contact with Acer first for more information about this key current status.

Regards

D. Wu

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4d5559e9-195e-4640-ac4e-a72b143ccc66/windows-not-activated?forum=w8itprogeneral