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Hello
I am trying to upgrade one of my laptops at the office from 7 Home Premium 64 bit to pro. I have bought several upgrade keys because I have several computers in the office. I lost track of how many times I used each of the keys. So on this one computer I entered one of the activation keys into Windows Anytime Upgrade. It keeps failing and tells me to go the Microsoft website for help. I suspect it's failing because I had already used that particular key too many times. I am trying to enter another activation key I have, but there's no option for that. Every time I go to Anytime Upgrade it tries to run the update using the key I had already entered with no option to enter a different key.
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Each should be only for 1 use. There should be an option for manual (telephone) activation, if not, look on the documentation with the upgrade, or google "microsoft activation help" and you should be able to get it straightened out.


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1. Open up regedit and browse to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsAnytimeUpgrade
2. Delete the ProductKey value
3. Restart and enter different key


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