Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Installing Windows 8 Enterprise and Activation Error

After installing Windows 8 Enterprise edition, I received the following error:

Windows can’t activate right now. Please try again later.

Trying later results in the same message.  The problem turns out to be that the system need a product key.  To do this, simply run an elevated command prompt and type:

slmgr.vbs –ipk “ENTER PRODUCT KEY”

Once this is done, you will be able to activate Windows (and on mine, it was already activated when I went to the activation center).

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