![]() ![]() So I do expect some people to be in for a rude surprise when the try to move the key from the old system (which is no longer in use) to the new hardware and find that key was locked to specific hardware and now the key won't work on any system.Īt any rate re-activating windows has been a long annoying tradition since XP and it's always come back to people not paying any attention to the questions being asked that ruins their license key. When Microsoft released the Win10 "free upgrade", this effectively turned all the Win7 OEM keys into Win10 OEM keys, system builder or not. Most people up till Windows 7, either had Retail copies of Windows that they bought themselves, or had to buy OEM versions when they built a new system from scratch. No retail "key-only"'s were ever sold on eBay, at least not legally. ![]() After determining which activation method you use, follow the steps in the corresponding Activate using a digital license or Activate using a product key. What you'll see is PRODUCT KEY: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX. You technically can, but that gets into a different problem, namely "why are you installing an OEM version." Microsoft makes a big deal about third parties selling recycled/unused OEM and VLK keys. A product key is a 25-character code used to activate Windows. If the licence is OEM or volume you can't activate it on another machine. ![]()
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