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Am I activated or not activated?
I have a retail upgrade copy of Win7. I did a clean install on a new hard drive using custom install. I unchecked Automatically activate windows and entered my product key. It would not let me continue because it said my product key was only valid for an upgrade. So I left the product key blank and it continued with the install. After the install successfully completed I tried to manually activate with my product key. Again it said the product key was not valid. So now I try the Registry workaround. Downloaded the .reg file, executed it and did the slmgr -rearm. This time when I tried to activate I got a message saying there was a rearm violation (or something like that) and when I tried again it said I needed to reinstall Win7. So now I do a reinstall except this time I do an upgrade instead of custom since now I have a copy of windows installed. When it gets to the activation screen this time I left Automatically update checked entered my key and it accepted it. So I figure all my problems are solved until I go to check the activation screen and it says will Automatically update in 2 days and shows a different key from the one I entered. So Am I activated or not activated and if not what's going on?