And no, I cant reach the guy who put this PC together because of the holidays. Like I said, never ever had this happen on any Windows PC before so I don't have a clue how to get rid of this obnoxious Windows BS watermark. to what they dont say? Can I use just any old key from any old random source? To use the troubleshooter, select Start > Settings > System > Activation, and then select Troubleshoot. I do not know my product key and it is X'd out in the settings and if as one brilliant website suggested you don't know your key then 'change product key'.

My PC was custom built this year and has Windows 11 Pro OS. I went into settings>Activation where it says in red type 'We cant activate Windows on this device because we cant connect to your organizations activation server. Yes, I searched it and found a bunch of unhelpful gobbledygook. So I woke up today and turned on my PC and apparently Santa thought ho ho ho 'hey, Rudolph wouldn't it be funny to slap this halfwit with a watermark in the bottom right corner of his screen!? he he he saying ' Activate Windows go to settings to activate Windows.' which ive never seen or heard of in all my years of using Windows computers.