SOLVED: Windows Can’t Be Activated Right Now 0x8007232b – Windows 8

The solution is to:

1. click START (gets you to the tiles)
2. type RUN
3. type slui 3 and press ENTER
   1. yes, SLUI: which stands for SOFTWARE LICENSING USER INTERFACE
      1. SLUI 1 brings up the activation status window
      2. SLUI 2 brings up the activation window
      3. SLUI 3 brings up the CHANGE PRODUCT KEY window
      4. SLUI 4 brings up the CALL MICROSOFT & MANUALLY ACTIVATE window
4. Type in your product key
5. Have a nice day.

See the screen shots below.

I just downloaded my Windows 8 Enterprise from Technet / MSDN, wiped the hard drive on my brand new Acer Timeline X, and installed it.  I did the same thing with an identical Acer Time Line but on that unit, I had yanked the hard disk and installed a spanky new Kingston V200+ SSD.  Both of these laptops had the same problems:

1. When I tried to activate them they showed “Windows Can’t Be Activated Right Now” DNS error 0x8007232b
2. There was no link to CHANGE THE PRODUCT KEY

 SLUI came out with Windows Vista and if you want more details you might find support.microsoft.com/kb/921471 useful 🙂