[DISCUSSION] HWID activation over?

Are you sure it's retail?
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/posts/1805623/

 

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yes pidkey report windows 8.0 retail key

 

For what it's worth guys, I activated a clean install of Windows 11 Pro, on hardware that did not already have Windows 10 or 11 Pro activated previously, with a Lenovo Windows 7 Pro key.

I think what has ended is any HWID activation requests from the default OEM keys (ie. in-place upgrade from 7 to 10, where 7 was activated via the OEM - I forget what this activation method is called) is now blocked. Standalone keys should still work in theory.

 

Correct.

 

So does this mean, if i have a Windows 7 SLIC OEM Key and try to upgrade to Windows 11 it will work or not?

 

When one door closes, another opens
I'm sure there will be new way to activate
Just be patient ..

Anyway
Even Ms know the activation process
Is s**t .. it bypess by Many other people
I think It will gone .. in about couple years ..

Even now, My PC will work just fine
Even without this dumb activation

 

If it's a default oem key it may not work, if it's oem (retail) key just for your pc it should work.

 

What other ways you want when we have ways to not activate at all, like HCI/Hypercore/RDSH for practically any windows past XP?

 

Dumb question I'm sure but, Is someone working on an alternative HWID activation method?

 

no, but u can still use a cheap win7 key for activation

 

Doesn't work...only upgrade from Windows 10...is it possible as HWID activation method....

 

AFAIK Windows 7 keys are blocked too:

https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/discussion-hwid-activation-over.87510/

 

What Im confused about is that HDWIN used to make standrard LTSC 2021 that support ends to 2025 into IOT version which suport ends at 2029 now what?

 

i installed windows 10 pro in a vm and when i tried to activate it with a licence from another vm it said it is not able to activcate

 

In vmware it should pickup the previously established HWID, on vbox it won't.

 

created a new vm. i wanted to do a license transfer since hwid activarion no longer works

 

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i installed windows 10 pro in vmware clicked torubleshoot selected the old computer and it would not activate. it said unable to activate please try again later. the computer i selected in troubleshoot is an older computer from a vm i created years ago


How did u activate iot ltsc 2021? when microsoft removed the ability to windows 7/8 keys to activate windows the hwid scripts no longer work except form kms activation

 

I just installed it, never used a MSA in my life for windows account.