2 Licences active on one computer, one activated, one not.

CrazyH

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I am running Windows 7 Home 64bit.
I bought it from PBTech on disk 2 or so years ago.
It ran fine (If you can call windows running fine) untill recently.
Now don't get me wrong, it still runs fine BUT something odd has been happening for the last two months.
Windows activation started to pop up with regular monotiny with the option to resolve online, once did I follow the link but after waiting for 10 minutes I lost patience and closed Firefox.
I continues to pop up.
I looked into this further at that time and found an app that looks at the licencing on the active computer and reports back, in my case I was told I had 2 licences active, 1 that is activated and 1 that is not, doesn't take to many brain cell to work out what causes the pop ups.
How to fix this?
It is one thing to have it pop up now while I am typing, just anoying, quite another and enfuriating while in the middle of a lusing battle in Path of Exile and this Moderator edit thing pops up, by the time I alt/tab back I am dead.
I don't know how this came about other than an unusual shutdown where the computer had not shut down from the previous session when I came back 10 hours later.
Windows shows as activated in Control Panel>System.
Thank you all.

 
Solution
I've removed the masked swearing from your post.

You didn't need an App. The information you need for each system individually is available at the Command Prompt. Open an elevated prompt by going to c:\windows\system32 and right clicking on the fle cmd.exe and selecting RunAs Administator.

At the prompt, type slmgr and press Enter. Look down the menu for the command that displays the Product Key (I'm on Linux here so I can't be more specific) and that will show you the current key.
I've removed the masked swearing from your post.

You didn't need an App. The information you need for each system individually is available at the Command Prompt. Open an elevated prompt by going to c:\windows\system32 and right clicking on the fle cmd.exe and selecting RunAs Administator.

At the prompt, type slmgr and press Enter. Look down the menu for the command that displays the Product Key (I'm on Linux here so I can't be more specific) and that will show you the current key.
 
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