The 1-888-479-3649 Fake Windows Activation Screen is a Trojan Horse that displays a fake Windows Activation screen on your desktop in order to scare you into calling a remote tech support number.

When you try to activate Windows 11 or Windows 10 on your device, you may encounter Activation errors like 0xC004F012, 0x803FABB8, 0xc004e016 and more. In this post, we will identify the potential ...

If you plan to install a new copy of the Windows operating system on a PC in your office, you'll need to prove your ownership of the software. In the past, this simply meant entering a unique product ...

We have seen how to activate Windows online and how to activate Windows Enterprise Edition using slui.exe. There are two ways to activate Windows. First, via the Internet and second, by phone. Today, ...

Ever since Microsoft introduced its anti-piracy activation scheme with Windows XP all those years ago, it has been a thorn in the side of hardware enthusiasts. To put it simply, Microsoft’s Windows ...

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This week's release of the latest Windows 10 Insider build, 10565, brought plenty of great improvements to the OS. However, one of the more interesting changes that Microsoft slipped in deals with ...

Trust, but verify. That was good advice for dealing with the Soviet Union in its heyday, and it's equally sound policy today when dealing with that other Evil Empire. You know, the one in Redmond? Now ...

A young Bill Gates once complained about the copying of his company's Altair Basic software by computer hobbyists. This rampant theft, according to Gates, made all the hard work done by him and his ...

Brian Freeman found a flaw in my article Reinstall Windows when you’ve lost your reinstall disc or partition. I told readers that “when it comes time to activate Windows, use the activation number on ...

Most people who have upgraded to Windows 10 have done so via the free one-year offer for older Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs. There are other ways to activate a new copy of Windows 10 on a PC and Microsoft ...