Windows 10 I am recently getting the "activate windows" watermark on a Dell laptop that I have had since December 2019.

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This laptop has worked without any problems since I bought it.When I open Settings to check the activation, it states at the bottom of the window that "Windows isn't activated. Activate windows now."When I click on this line the settings app hangs. It is not using any CPU or other resources.When I open a command prompt to show the product key by entering the following command:"wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey" The command prompt also hangs showing no resource usage.I was able to go into the regedit and display the product key using the path - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHI

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