Have I bought wrong win10 license?

wesley · 7 Oct 2021 at 15:40

Hi guys

We have 2 dell Inspiron laptops at work..they activated as win10 Home Edition. We need out them on Azure active directory. So I bought 2 X Win10 Professional OEM. Cost £125 each

Opened one of DVD, tried the first key and it didn't work. Got error code 0xc004f050.

Should it be the retail one?

Thanks

vanandjuanunited · 7 Oct 2021 at 15:55

Error code 0xc004f050 usually means that your CD key isn’t working, and in most cases, Microsoft blames this problem on server capacity.

So the most common solution is to wait for a few days, usually about 48 hours before trying to activate your copy of Windows 10.

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Ad_Augendae · 7 Oct 2021 at 19:16

I had trouble with mine I had to remove my old key first.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-product-key-windows-10

Save old key first

Code:

wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

wesley · 7 Oct 2021 at 20:01

Ad_Augendae said:
I had trouble with mine I had to remove my old key first.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-product-key-windows-10

Save old key first

Code:

wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

Thanks for that. Will try that tomorrow..how can I save old key thou?

Ad_Augendae · 7 Oct 2021 at 20:11

de-register it