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Yvone Brem

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Aug 3, 2024, 2:55:33 PM8/3/24

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Sometimes, even uninstalling and clearing the key does not help to get rid of activation errors. In this case, I usually try to use slmgr /rearm, which does the job of clearing everything and letting me activate the system.

Unfortunately, I don't get a "continue trial" option. I get the following licence activation box only. I use the same login details here as what I use to log into my affinity account online. I'm not able to get past this to open the application

I have the same issue as user m3000. The app downloaded is an .MSIX install, it is a Windows store installer. If you are having an issue with the Windows Store or any Store apps there is NO WAY to activate the app.
Serif programmers MUST take a different tack and have an option to pass off the Universal license number for local activation. Then once the app is open you can sign into the account inside the account for server side confirmation. This will avoid any firewall issues as well as 3rd party security program firewall blocking.
OR provide an EXE install.

Please can you confirm you are getting the same error about the Affinity ID and Password not being recognised. This shouldn't be related to a Firewall blocking Affinity, as you'd get a different error as well as notification from your firewall the app is being blocked.

There is no workaround when the server cannot be connected. This NOT a Firewall issue in my case. Is there a way to activate the app after sign in.with my account I have a Universal license and it works as designed on the Mac and iPad, the Windows store has a LOT to be desired and i need a way to launch the app without first activating, THEN sign into my account. An .MSIX files can look to a URL for updates to run the newest version, perhaps a post activation version would address this issue.

Hi, I had the same issue. However I tried first to use my V2 license code to get in. The trick was, that didn't read correctly, what the input mask really wanted - you should use your ID, used for your Affinity account and then don't put in your license code, but your password for your Affinity account.

The email address is the one associated with your account at the Affinity Store (store.serif.com or affinity.serif.com/store) and the password for it. It is not the email address associated with these forums (forum.affinity.serif.com).

And if you are letting a password manager fill this in for you, it might be choosing the wrong one. (That happened to me on my iPad, where the facial recognition and automatic fill-in chose the wrong account.)

I did a reset of my password manually. Start one Affinty App, in the Dialog to enter your ID, i clicked "forgot my Password" an set a Passphrase easy to remember instead of usung automatic feature by the Mac

I have now installed it directly from the Windows Store. This allowed me to select a trial option before going to the activation screen (this does not happen with the download from the affinity store).

@stokerg mentioned above that the logs showed you had entered either the wrong ID or password during the Activation step. And you mentioned you've changed the password, and clearly (from the screenshot above) you know the right ID and password

If that same ID and password are failing in the Activation step, possibly there's a flaw in the Activation code that can't handle some characters in email addresses or in the password. Have you tried a shorter password, and one containing more common characters (perhaps just upper- and lower-case letters and digits)? Sometimes excessively complex passwords can confuse applications. (I also saw one post mentioning an issue with "&" in an email address.)

Hi Walt - thanks for all your support. I changed my password to something very short with no special characters and numbers and then waited 24 hours. It actually worked this time ? Finally managed to activate the licence!

I bought 1 monthly license of the Business Premium and installed the Windows 10 Pro on a test PC. Windows is not activated because I do not have a license for it. I joined the Azure AD with that PC and logged in with the user that has the Business Premium license.

My laptop hard drive has died and I am replacing it with a new SSD. I am downloading a tool from Microsoft's website to install Windows 10 on the new drive, but how do I activate it? Windows 10 came with the laptop so I don't have a key stored anywhere except on the completely toast hard drive. And I don't think I had the foresight to link the system to a Microsoft account. Any other way to get the system activated using the original key? The laptop is out of warranty btw.

If the license key came with your laptop, it means it is a OEM key, which is bound to motherboard. Windows 10 should be activated by default on new SSD. However, OEM key is not transferable and can be only used on one device.

Recently, the windows 10 factory installed in my probook 450 g3 notebook kept giving me the notification that my winodows is not activated. I thought it was an error with the operating system, so I reinstalled with a new copy downloaded from the microsoft website. I thought windows would automatically activate using the internet, but this has not happened.

I have used the tool and it has told me the OEM key is not present in the firmware. I had gotten this problem before, where windows tells you "your windows license will expire soon". I downloaded a "fix", which thinking back, was a mistake because it changed my version of windows from pro to enterprise. I suspect it also wiped my oem key.

To use KMS, you need to have a KMS host available on your local network. Computers that activate with a KMS host need to have a specific product key. This key is sometimes referred to as the KMS client key, but it's formally known as a Microsoft Generic Volume License Key (GVLK). Computers that are running volume licensing editions of Windows Server and Windows client are, by default, KMS clients with no extra configuration needed as the relevant GVLK is already there.

If you want to activate Windows without a KMS host available and outside of a volume-activation scenario (for example, you're trying to activate a retail version of Windows client), these keys won't work. You will need to use another method of activating Windows, such as using a MAK, or purchasing a retail license. Get help to find your Windows product key and learn about genuine versions of Windows.

If you're converting a computer from a KMS host, MAK, or retail edition of Windows to a KMS client, install the applicable product key (GVLK) from the list in this article. To install a client product key, open an administrative command prompt on the client, and run the following command and then press Enter:

Windows Server, version 20H2 reached end of service on August 9, 2022 and is no longer receiving security updates. This includes the retirement of Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) with no future releases.

I have created a fairly intricate workbook employing various macros to perform dozens of calculations, shift data around, and create/delete/restructure columns in my spreadsheet. Now, however, I'm having trouble with a line of code in my Macros (which was obviously inserted by the Record Macro function, since I'm in no way familiar with it and did not program it in) that looks like this:

Where waterfall template.xls is the name of my workbook. I assume this, like the sheets().select function, tells excel to select a certain workbook before performing the next few steps, but I don't see why this is necessary: if the code appears midway through a Macro shouldn't the workbook already be selected? The reason this is a pain in the ass is because it obviously restricts my ability to rename the workbook or save it as anything other than Waterfall Template.xls (doing so renders all my Macros invalid). Simply deleting the lines with windows().activate doesn't work, as all the subsequent functions (i.e. select range, select columns, etc) all of a sudden don't work.
Is there any way to either 1) get rid of these lines of code and still have my macros work, or 2) make these lines more adaptive, so that instead of always referring to Waterfall Template.xls they refer to whatever workbook the Macro is actually saved in?

ok, well i tried replacing every instance of windows("Waterfall Template.xls").activate with ThisWorkbook.Activate, and when I ran the Macro Excel crashed... no error message, no debugging prompt, it just closes the workbook and goes unresponsive. Oops.

There were 2 problems in the code (the ThisWorkbook.Activate command and the ActiveWindow.Visible command) and you were dead on with both. I guess this serves as a lesson never to blindly take what Record Macro programs as infallible... I still have no idea why it inserted ActiveWindow.Visible=False into my code (over 200 times!), as I never hid any chart or range in the spreadsheet. Thank you both for your time and efforts, it's much appreciated.