Have I received a cracked Windows 10?

[Eiros]

Hello everyone,

I received my i7 Book this week and was positively surprised by its quality. However, after I registered in with my Microsoft account, the OS started to give me the message: “Your Windows license will expire soon. You need to activate Windows in PC settings.”

The problem persists after trying to activate the license and going through solutions (apart from the last one) listed on this website. Then Windows Defender notified me that there’s harmful file called AutoKMS, so I assume this was used to originally authenticate the Windows product key. At least to me it seems that the tablet doesn’t have a real product key, but please correct me, if I’m wrong.

So, has anyone else had similar issues on their i7 Book tablets? I was also wondering, if Cube did this or is it more likely that the vendor replaced the original product key with a fake and took the original one for their own purposes?

[Windave]

I had no problem with mine. It activated without my having to do anything. I didn’t encounter an AutoKMS file! Have you tried running “sfc /scannow”, in case that shows up anything? If the hardware has been registered with Microsoft by Cube (???) then you could try a clean Windows 10 install, but you would lose your current win 10 installation unless you save a “System Image” first.

[Eiros]

Thank you for the response. I did run “sfc /scannow”, but it found no integrity violations. I also considered about clean install, but would prefer not to have all the hassle installing drivers and reinstalling all the programs that I already set up. Well, if nothing else helps I’ll probably contact Microsoft about verifying the product key and after that contact the vendor.

[Jason Dessenberg]

I just received mine last week and re-installed windows last weekend without an issue.  Nothing would surprise me though.

 

I would take pictures of the whole tablet showing the screens.  Then file a dispute with the vender.  They should be able to give you a product key that works.

[Eiros]

Thank you for the advice. I decided to do just that and contacted the vendor about the issue. I’ll wait for their response for now.

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