Correct the date and time to today’s date and time 😀 😀 😀ģ. Cicking it will show you time and date configuration window. Hope this helps anyone else having this issue in particular. On the bottom right corner of your screen, you will see the current time and date. Can confirm the windows update package fixed it for me as Im guessing Windows 7 finally had a way of acquiring the proper root cert authority from Microsoft so Windows Activation could work.

Here is how to change your system time & date. (ex 7) Simply by updating the time will solve this 0x80072f8f Windows activation error. If you check your Windows time & date, you will see something is wrong. To Fix this, “CHANGE YOUR SYSTEM DATE & TIME” We understand that some readers might have tried to re-enter the Windows product key many times. Read our blog post to fix ! Let’s active the Windows. You have a genuine Windows product key entered, but when you click the activate button, you see “0x80072f8f error message ?ĭon’t worry! 😀 😀 😀 This does not mean that you have pirated Windows or it does not mean that you cannot activate the Windows.