# Windows Wont Activate

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-wont-activate/175476>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [January 14, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-wont-activate/175476 "2006-01-14T20:44:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![SlowRoasted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@SlowRoasted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SlowRoasted)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-wont-activate/175476/1 "2006-01-14T20:44:54Z")

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I had to reinstall windows and now it won’t activate. It says my product key is wrong. Anyone had this problem before? Did you get it resolved? This is the product key that came plastered to the side of my computer, it cant be bad.