Windows 10 Upgraded to Windows 10, now asking for product key to activate

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I have been running Windows 7 for many years and successfully used the free upgrade to Windows 10. The new operating system was working ok. However, when I logged on today there was a message to activate windows. Apparently the system was now requiring a product key! I was under the impression that an upgrade from a genuine copy of Windows 7 didn’t require a product key. My original copy of Windows 7 was included with a new Dell computer back in 2011 and it came with a product key. I tried to enter this but almost immediately some of the characters I entered were deemed to be invalid. How do I

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