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#21

Home Updater: General Discussions and Questions / Re: Help! Windows 8.1 suddenly...

Last post by OldNavyGuy - May 14, 2025, 09:57:20 AM

Hello. First time posting here but I would really appreciate any help with this problem. So first the laptop I am having problems with is a Lenovo y50 that came with windows 8.1 pre-installed. Recently I have been having problems opening the pc setting app as it would immediately crash. This was not a big deal to me since I could still access settings from the control panel. However the bigger problem comes in that now I have an activation issue.

So all of a sudden my laptop, which has been running windows 8.1 for a few years now, says that windows is not activated and that I should go activate it. It shows the windows 8.1 build 9600 watermark on the right hand side. I cannot personalize anything and on the pc info it says windows is not activated even though it was for the past few years.

I went to cmd prompt to find the product key and even used a third party key finding software to find the value. But when I went to input the product key, Microsoft kept saying it it's not right.

I was worried this might mean I have a virus on the computer but I did a malware bytes scan and it found nothing. And I did a disk check scan and repair just the night before. I currently use this laptop mainly for playing games and browsing the internet, both which still works. I really don't want to do a clean restart on my laptop since I have a lot of files on here from over the years. However I am concerned that not activating windows will cause future problems. I would be grateful to anyone who could offer some help because this is really bugging me. Thank you in advance.

EDIT: I did a sfc/scan and a dism scan thanks to Fjeuber for recommending this but I got the fact that there r some corrupt files from the sfc scan. So I did a dism / online/ cleanup-image /rstore health, and I get error 0x800f081f. Not sure how to proceed from here.

This was posted on reddit 6 years ago...

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/c5mgnk/help_windows_81_suddenly_needs_activation_again/

#22

Home Updater: Report Bugs and Issues Not Related to Installing Apps / Re: Window Size and Position

Last post by rjmolloy - May 14, 2025, 09:52:54 AM

Does nothing in version 5.

#23

Home Updater: General Discussions and Questions / Re: portable version of new ap...

Last post by Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC) - May 14, 2025, 09:18:15 AM

The portable version is now available for download. You can find the link in the comments for this feature request: https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-5114

#24

Home Updater: General Discussions and Questions / Re: Help! Windows 8.1 suddenly...

Last post by barkerxavierr - May 13, 2025, 07:04:26 PM

I can't find any new updates

Sprunki Retake

#25

Home Updater: Report Detection Issues or Installation Issues / Re: RUSTDESK

Last post by Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC) - May 13, 2025, 07:39:15 AM

Can't update RustDesk without PatchMyPc app hanging stuck on stupid. Dude like this used to work! WTF!

Could you please attached the log file from: "C:\ProgramData\PatchMyPC\PatchMyPCHomeUpdater.log"

#26

Home Updater: Report Detection Issues or Installation Issues / RUSTDESK

Last post by FD0EC0DDA9991 - May 13, 2025, 07:23:28 AM

Can't update RustDesk without PatchMyPc app hanging stuck on stupid. Dude like this used to work! WTF!

#27

Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Oracle Java Runtime remova...

Last post by Antony (Patch My PC) - May 13, 2025, 01:55:33 AM

Good Morning,

Apologies for the late response, I was not notified by our system that you had replied on the thread.

The same concept applies to the 32-bit version of the script too, if you use the script below it should log correctly when carrying out the tasks.

https://github.com/PatchMyPCTeam/Community-Scripts/tree/main/Uninstall/Pre-Uninstall/Uninstall-Software

Thanks,
Antony

#28

Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Oracle Java Runtime parame...

Last post by Bogdan (Patch My PC) - May 13, 2025, 01:55:07 AM

Hey there,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It's a great point and something worth looking into.
If you'd like to suggest a change, please  create an idea on our Ideas page!  https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/new 
It's the perfect place to share feedback like this, and it helps our team track and prioritise community suggestions.
Really appreciate you bringing it up!

#29

Home Updater: General Discussions and Questions / Re: How to update software wit...

Last post by Quithard1941 - May 12, 2025, 09:14:27 PM

this problem is so troublesome, i tried so many ways to fix it, finally it's ok

#30

Home Updater: Report Bugs and Issues Not Related to Installing Apps / Re: Window Size and Position

Last post by OldNavyGuy - May 12, 2025, 12:32:07 PM

Try the following...

1. Shift + X before closing.

2. Close the app.

3. Re-open the app.

Works in version 4.