- In some cases, HWID activation may fail because system couldn't connect to HWID licensing servers.
- Activation script will inform you about this if that is the case.
- This may happen mostly either due to DNS or Issues in MS licensing servers itself or Firewall rules in the system. Below you can find listed fixes for it.
- Download the `Fix_DNS.zip` file from [here](http://www.box.com/index.php?rm=box_download_shared_file&shared_name=4c66hw8ezuijy5j0trwczy860sf825i7&file_id=f_1146300205040).
- Extract the zip file and right click on `Fix_DNS.cmd` file and run it as admin.
Around 8 Feb 2023 in China, MS licensing servers failed to properly connect and it disrupted many Windows services including activation. Solution to this issue is to simply hardcode another country's MS licensing servers IP in hosts file and Windows will use that for activation. This method can also be used if for any reason DNS is failing to resolve MS licensing servers.