I bought my laptop last summer, and it came with Windows 8.1. I did an upgrade to Windows 10 Home edition today with the ISO using the media creation tool, and it was activated.
I then did a clean install just to wipe everything clean because it's been a while. Afterwards, it was activated for a couple of hours, but now it's saying that it's not activated anymore. When I try to activate it, I always get Error code: 0x8007232B. Error Description: DNS name does not exist
I'm posting from the laptop so Internet works
Update: I plugged the laptop directly into the modem via Ethernet, and the error changed to Error code: 0x8007007B. Error description: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
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Ended up just doing a clean reinstall because I found out I installed Windows in BIOS mode instead of UEFI. Fixed everything, but I still don't know what caused it to begin with...
I'm guessing somehow your DNS settings got removed/changed.
Run a Command Prompt as Administrator (windows key -> "command prompt" -> right click -> Run As Administrator).
Then type in:
netsh interface ip set dns "Wi-Fi" static 8.8.8.8
If you use Wi-Fi. If you are wired, do:
netsh interface ip set dns "Local Area Connection" static 8.8.8.8
That will set your DNS server to Google's public DNS servers.
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