Scenario 1: You’re getting a Windows 7 activation error – 0x8007000D If you are getting an activation error, here is what you can do. What to do if Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 came pre-installed on your computer before you upgradedĪssuming you’ve reinstalled the same version of Windows 7 or 8.1 that you had before upgrading to 10, then your computer should recognize the OEM Marker in your BIOS (don’t worry if you don’t know what that means) – and you should not be prompted to reactivate. If you have a boxed copy of Windows 7 or 8.1 and it wasn’t pre-installed on your computer, click here to jump to the relevant section.If Windows 7 or 8.1 was pre-installed on your computer before you upgraded, click here to jump to the relevant section.
If that happened to you, read on to resolve this issue. And, eventually, they decided to downgrade or roll back to Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.Īfter doing so, though, the Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 license reported that it is not activated or not genuine. Maybe Windows 10 wasn’t working well on their PC, or they didn’t like Windows 10, or the applications that they were using were not working well (or at all) on the new operating system. But for some people that upgrade didn’t work out so great. That made it very tempting to upgrade your existing version of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 before the offer ends. Windows 10 was offered as a free upgrade.
