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11-11-2021 03:20 PM
The "sppsvc" service is disabled in my windows 11 and it's blocked so I can not turn it on. Should that be a/the problem? A while ago I had the same problem with installing Windows 10 and this register tweak solved it but now it is already 1 but not running.. (Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sppsvc DelayedAutoStart setting it to 1)
11-11-2021 04:16 PM
HP laptops come with Windows already preloaded and since those are OEM versions, the product keys are embedded into the firmware of the PC BIOS chips.
IF you force a different Windows version onto the laptop is is NOT going to activate because that version requires a non-OEM product key. So, unless you purchased a key to match the version you installed, this is not solvable.
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