Solved Windows suddenly deactivated after 5 years due to a hardware change, but none occurred

MisterEd said:

My original laptop came with Windows 11 Home. I bought a Windows 11 Pro key online. The new key didn't work. I first I had to first enter a Windows 11 Pro generic key. Windows then upgraded to Windows 11 Pro. After I rebooted I changed the key to the Windows 11 Pro key that I bought.

I had to replace the laptop with another identical one. It also came with Windows 11 Home. I had to do the same process of upgrading to Windows 11 Pro. Note I used the same Windows 11 Pro key that I had used with the original laptop.

BTW, the Windows 11 Pro generic key was JNB6J-DBPVV-GYTC6-YBX9D-FM49G.

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Thank you !
Yes you are right. I found that out also. The key which is 7 times in my registry is not the Home key, as I thought, but a transitional key from Home to Professional. It is the same key,as the one mentionned on this internet page (see below, but not the same as yours) :

A certain ZebraMike says on this page (the thread is from December 2017 !), that:


Ok, that explains a certain number of things. But this still leaves me with three (3) keys: two (2) of which are in my registry, and that ( according to the different apps used; see my posts above), are:

• - one Professional Retail key, which is not the one I used to re-activate my Windows two days ago, and
• - (even) one key designated as Enterprise OEM:NONLSP (please see here for an explanation for this OEM:NONSLP),

as well as another Professional Retail key (I used to re-activate Windows), which apparently is NOT anymore in my computer (registry), but was there 5 years ago when I used MagicjellyBean and which still seems to work !

I think I will close now close this thread : Even if I haven’t understood everything, I have sufficient « ammunition » now in case Windows will suddenlysay again that my computer is not activated.

Thanks to all of you again !