How to Fix "Your Windows License Will Expire Soon" Error in Windows 10

When we install Windows from scratch, Microsoft offers us a few "trial" days to activate the operating system with its license key. The same applies when it detects an anomaly, which gives us a period of several days to reactivate the license of our operating system, by displaying the message "Your Windows license will expire soon ”from time to time.

In case this error suddenly appeared, we will tell you how to fix it.

Commercial licenses are generally valid for 180 days

All licenses that we can buy as users (i.e. OEM and Retail) are unlimited, i.e. we can use them indefinitely with no problem. Unless we change the computer hardware (in the case of OEM) or have a serious problem with our license (in the case of Retail), those licenses will never expire.

Corporate licenses, university licenses, or those related to a KMS service are generally not unlimited, but are valid for a period of time. number of days . Usually for 180 days. After this time, the company manager should call Microsoft to renew the licensing. Otherwise, they will no longer be valid.

For a volume license to be renewed, it must be in the corporate network. In this way, the computer can communicate with the company's KMS server (usually a department within the central server), which is the one that communicates with Microsoft and is responsible for distributing the validity of the license to computers on the network.

If we are using a company, university, or volume license outside of the company, it is most likely that it has an expiration date. And when it gets closer, we see the message “Your Windows license will expire soon”.

How to check if our license is a KMS volume or does not expire

To check the status of our license , and if it may expire soon, just open a CMD window on our computer and run the following command:

slmgr.vbs/xpr

After a while a message will appear that will tell us either the expiration date of the license or if our computer is permanently activated, that is, the license is OEM or Retail and does not expire.

When we turn on a computer with a KMS license , the first thing it does is try to connect to the server to check the license status and renew it. We can also force it using the following command (from CMD also):

slmgr.vbs/ato

And we can also see a summary with the current activation status with the command:

slmgr.vbs / dlv

Microsoft explains in detail how its KMS (Key Management Services) works in the following link of its documentation .

How to get rid of the "Your Windows license will expire soon" message in Windows 10

If this message appears, the first thing to do is to check the license status of our Windows 10. To do this, we will press the keyboard shortcut Windows + break and we'll look at the window that shows the state of our license. Windows whether it is activated or not.

If enabled, the problem should have resolved itself. We can also try to restart the computer (restart, not shutdown and turn back on), or restart the Explorer process, so that the license information is reloaded and everything works normally again.

If this message keeps popping up, the next thing to do is to activate Windows 10 by following the steps that we explain in the previous link. If we are using a license that is going to expire in our house, it means that we are using Windows illegally. It's simple Either having used a business license outside the organization , either having used an illegal activator based on KMS, if the license is not legal and we don't have a KMS server in our network that validates the licenses, sooner or later the licenses will expire.

The password may have been changed or removed from our system for any reason. Therefore, the first thing we are going to do is enter it again in Windows 10. The easiest way to do this is to open the Windows 10 Settings menu and go to the "menu". Update and Security> Activation "To select the" Change product password «.

Once the activation key for our operating system has been entered and the steps to activate it have been followed, simply restart the computer for the license to leave our system activated and fully functional.

Another option that we can also try is to restart the Windows license. To do this, we'll just open a terminal with administrative permissions and run the following command there:

• slmgr - arm

In a few seconds, the license will have been restarted and everything should work normally again.

My Windows 10 is still disabled, what should I do?

If after following the previous steps, especially changing the Windows 10 license key, the computer is still not activated, there is a good chance that you are using a pirated, bogus, or wrong license.

Can the 10 Euro licenses you sell online help me remove this message?

A Windows 10 Home Retail license costs $ 145, and we can buy it either in-store, in physical format, or in the Microsoft Store itself.

145 euros for the Windows 10 Home license may seem expensive. And the 259 euros of the Pro edition much more. For this reason, users are often hit with licenses that sell for $ 10 or less to eliminate this error message.

Although they can be tempting, these types of licenses are not legal and sooner or later they will give us problems. Some manufacturers may sell remaining OEM licenses (which Microsoft completely forbids) and when the company detects it, they cancel them. And our Windows will be disabled.

Licenses sold can be volume licenses or licenses purchased from companies that can be activated on multiple computers at the same time. Anyway, all of them are illegal and cannot be used outside of organizations. For this reason, although initially the license is activated, it is likely that after some time (6 months, for example) the license will be deactivated and we will have to re-pay.

It is true that Windows 10 can seem expensive. But in the long run, an original license will save us problems, both in terms of security and having to be aware of activations, expiration dates and issues with the license.

Have you ever had a problem with Windows 10 licensing?