Error 0x80041014 when transferring a Windows license from an old laptop.

[Henrique Cotta]

I recently got a new laptop and I'm trying to activate Windows with the product key on the old laptop. I have Windows 10 Pro installed on the old one and the new one came with Windows 11 Home, so I did a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro.When I try to change the product key to the one I have active on the old laptop I get error 0x80041014 and if I try using the key I found on the registry (Under "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\BackupProductKeyDefault") I get error 0x803fa067.Running "Troubleshoot" gives me the message "We found

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