Posted December 11, 201211 yr FPCH Admin Ok, so my Lenovo laptop is about 2 years old. All the garbage on it was slowing it down and I did not want to put all the bloat ware back on it, so I decided to go with a fresh copy of windows 7 instead of lenovos recovery, and install all the needed drivers myself. So everything went fine until I tried to activate it. When I try to activate, it says error code 0xc004e003, and says the key is invalid. I tried phone activation and MS said the same thing that the key is invalid. Whats funny is when I click the button that says purchase a new key, it says "welcome to windows, because the version of windows installed on your pc is valid, enjoy....." It doesn't even give me a link to purchase. Any ideas? View the thread Off Topic Forum - Unlike the Rest
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