could someone put up setting from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost\Applicability please this should able me to get inside builds ... thxs
How stupid is that you can't activate anything with the Insider account... That just doesn't make any sense. I'm trying to install it in a virtual machine and obviously I don't have a VM with a hardware ID. If I'm a member of the Insider program, I should be able to activate any preview build with it, end of story.
You can't just activate RTM on a virtual machine. Having joined the insider program doesn't make you eligible for freely activatable RTM build on new machines. Think about it, that would mean that anyone who joins the insider program for free can get Windows 10 RTM on any machine for free. In order to be able to upgrade to the new insider build 10525, three things are needed: - An already running genuine (i.e. successfully activated) RTM build 10240 - Opted in to insider builds in windows update settings - Connected a Microsoft Account who joined the insider program Any successfully activated RTM build counts. For example, you upgraded to Windows 10 via the free upgrade offer from Windows 7/8, or you have an existing activated insider preview build 10240 via the insider program before Windows 10 release. I have no idea what happens if you do a fresh install of build 10525 using a homebrew iso from an esd.
At the moment, even if you are part of the Insider program, you can't activate fresh installations of build 10240 on a new machine, for the obvious reason that this would give free access to Windows 10 for anyone. Currently, activated build 10240 is required to upgrade to 10525. Note that at the moment the old technical preview build 9926 and insider preview builds 10074 and 10130 can still be installed fresh on a new machine and activated. You can then upgrade to 10240 from them and be activated.
Nothing, you can't activate it. I have a valid Windows 10 license on my actual hardware and I should be able to activate it if I install it directly on the machine, but I don't do that for test operating systems. Yeah I will probably have to do that and use that VM as a main testing platform from now on. It's still extremely annoying. Thanks.
Clean install activated fine for me with no need to type in key. So far this build is performing quite well.