[DISCUSSION] HWID activation over?

Discussion in 'Windows 10' started by Chuterix, Sep 28, 2023.

  1. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    Only IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC can be activated by HWID.
     
  2. PolidelticusFire

    PolidelticusFire MDL Addicted

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    Glad things are back as normal. Rushed and activated all main Editions of Win10/11 on both of my machines so I can use any of them whenever I want (and before MS finds a way to patch this again).
    Thanks to MAS devs.
     
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  3. pm67310

    pm67310 MDL Guru

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    hwid are for iot ltsc ,

    ltsc 2021 converted to iot ltsc have hwid

    ltsc 2021 N sku not exist as iot

    only kms38 capable its not a bug

    install standard ltsc 2021

    and not the bad N variant ...

    FYI
    @Enthousiast
     
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  4. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    Why do you tag me, i did tell him exactly why it didn't work and told many many many times what would work or how to get it working.
     
  5. pm67310

    pm67310 MDL Guru

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    sorry I hadn't seen the message the network doesn't work very well where I am
     
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  6. Dark Dinosaur

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    I like the N version..
    Clean & light .;)
     
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  7. picchio

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    everything works perfect, I switched from the home/pro version, and activated with a digital license
     
  8. Agret

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    #68 Agret, Oct 9, 2023
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    To update this, massgrave has updated his popular script with a new HWID method that is still working.

    Best to HWID activate any devices you have laying around spare as there's no telling when MS will close this off. I checked his github commit for the fix and it's weird as he used the same valid product id for every single supported Windows edition. You think there would be some sort of validation on it but nope, once again MS just accepts anything.
     
  9. PolidelticusFire

    PolidelticusFire MDL Addicted

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    I believe HWID still works because Win10 to 11 Free Upgrades are still allowed.
    Don't think they'll ever close this again because they'll want as many users as possible upgrading to vNext in 2024.
    That, once again will be a free upgrade which will require HWID working to activate properly.

    They've just blocked Windows 7 and 8.1 keys. Not the HWID activations themselves AFAIU.
     
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  10. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    The keys aren't blocked for now, they patched the upgrade from 7/8.1 to 10 and have a free HWID path and the side affect is that the HWID generation method as we used to do is now also blocked.
     
  11. spinalGR

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    MassGrave aka Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) is the best workin