

Activate Windows now.” message at the top as shown in following screenshot: All pages were showing “ You need to activate Windows before you can personalize your PC. I was not able to change anything on those pages. In fact all personalization options such as background, colors, lock screen, themes, fonts, start and taskbar were grayed out i.e. Activate Windows now.” at the bottom of Settings app as shown in following screenshot: I opened Settings app and I was greeted with the same activation message “ Windows isn’t activated. It was overlapping the text written on other program screens. It was showing at the top of the screen and was displaying over all program screens. Then I realized that the watermark was not limited to Desktop. Go to Settings to activate Windows” as shown in following screenshot: Activate Windows now” message everywhere.įirst of all I noticed a new watermark on Desktop stating “ Activate Windows. Surprisingly Windows 10 started showing “ Windows is not activated. I have clean installed Windows 10 Pro many times (to fresh install Windows 10 new feature updates) in my machine using the same product key and never faced any activation issues. I was using a genuine and activated Windows 10 Professional version in my computer since long time and it was working absolutely fine. After reboot I was shocked to see that my already activated Windows 10 became deactivated. Today I installed the latest cumulative update KB4462933 for Windows 10 version 1803 and restarted the computer to install and apply the update.
