Remember what I said about Windows 10 oh, about 5 years ago now? Nothing has happened to changed my mind. On the contrary. Now I'm forced into both supporting it and running it on my own computers, my cordial dislike has hardened to outright loathing, accompanied by a strong desire to punch the relevant developers in the throat. Remember, kids - coding without due care and attention is bad for your health.
I've been having particular issues lately, for no obvious reason, with activating VLK versions of Windows. Put in the correct key during install, the build decides it has another key (where the hell did it get that from?) which it can't activate because "the organisation's activation server isn't available". Don't ask me how it's managed to install a KMS version of Windows when I downloaded the ISO for the VLK version and put the volume licence key in. And this is confirmed by the fact that it will activate to the VLK, but only programmatically:
From an elevated command prompt:
slmgr.vbs -ipk <product key> [this changes the installed key]
slmgr.vbs -ato [this does the activation]
Hat-tip to Carey Frisch MVP.
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