Some PC users may experience Windows 10 or Windows 11 activation error code 0x8004FC12 on their device. This article provides the most appropriate solutions to successfully resolve this issue.
When you encounter this problem, you receive the following full error message;
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Windows cannot activate at this time. Try once more later. If that doesn’t work, contact support.
When you now click on the Error Details link, the error code with its description (if any) will now be displayed.
The most common probable culprits of this error include;
- Activation servers are busy.
- Your PC is not connected to the Internet.
- An update is pending, preventing a second request from your system to the activation servers.
Erreur d’activation Windows 11/10 0x8004FC12
If you face this Erreur d’activation Windows 10/11 0x8004FC12you can try the suggestions below to fix the problem.
- Wait for activation servers to become available
- Run Windows Activation Troubleshooter
- Check your firewall settings
- Clean up excess old transactions
- Activate Windows by Phone
Let’s take a look at the description of the process involved regarding each of the listed solutions.
1]Wait for activation servers to be available
If Windows activation servers are unavailable or busy with activation requests, you may encounter this Erreur d’activation Windows 10/11 0x8004FC12. In this case, you can’t do anything but wait for the servers to become available to handle new activation requests in the queue – and while you wait, make sure your PC has a stable connection to the Internet.
2]Run Windows Activation Troubleshooter
The built-in Windows Activation Troubleshooter can help resolve activation issues that may arise for the following different reasons:
- Internet connectivity or failure (network driver not native to the system, power failure locally, etc.).
- Change of hardware in the system.
- Wrong operating system version.
3]Check your firewall settings
This solution requires you to disable Windows Firewall and then retry activation. If you are using third-party security software and your firewall is managed by it, be sure to disable the firewall as well or temporarily disable the security software and re-enable it following successful activation.
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4]Clean up excess old transactions
Since there may be old updates pending that are blocking a second request from your system to the activation servers, you can use the FSUTIL command to clean up excess old transactions on your Windows PC. Here’s how:
net localgroup Administrators localservice /add fsutil resource setautoreset true C: netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt
After running the three commands, restart your device and try to activate it once more. If the activation fails with the same error, you can try the next solution.
5]Activate Windows by Phone
If nothing has worked so far, you can still activate Windows by phone.
I hope this helps you!
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