You will see the license displayed below OA3xOriginalProductKey. Mine has been shown above in the image as X ——– M. Copy it elsewhere safely. Now you may proceed. Open an elevated Command Prompt. To ...

So I upgraded an old haswell system by replacing the Motherboard, CPU, & Ram. This PC is a gaming PC which I bought a Window 7 Ultimate retail lic for, then rolled into Win10 "free" upgrade. When I ...

Historically, hardware upgrades on Windows PCs that involved major changes (new motherboard and/or CPU, for example) required a phone call to Microsoft to reactivate the Windows license. Microsoft has ...

First, let’s use the Slmgr command to access your license information. To do so, run the following command in CMD. The command will give you a brief description of your license information along with ...

Microsoft is working on a fix for a bug in its activation server that has caused Windows 10 Pro machines to report that their license has not been activated. The issue was causing panic for some ...

Facepalm: A Reddit user has made an uncomfortable discovery for Microsoft. The company's own AI assistant Copilot will provide you instructions on how to activate Windows 11 without a valid license.

License keys for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 can be used to activate a fresh copy of the Windows 10 Creators Update, even if Microsoft has "officially" stopped offering free upgrades to Windows 10 back in ...