Since Sept. 2023 it's haven't been able yo use old Win 7 / Win 8.1 keys to activate Win 10 / Win 11.
Looking for free-upgrade windows-8.1 to windows-10
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Umar Mohamed Ikram
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My laptop is: HP, Intel(R), Core i5, Ram-4GB, showing every time Windows activation window, I tried to activate online press the button activate-online showing this; Error code: 0xC004F074-Windows can not activate. My product ID: 00261-20000-00000-AA336, I am looking to activate Windows-8.1 to Windows-10 with free upgrade??
Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Licensing and activation
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Pauli O 14,550 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2025-08-23T06:31:33.5933333+00:00