no, forever. 1 year to GET the free upgrade. once you do its yours... forever (or until you change your motherboard lol)
Hi guys there is a way to view or read our HWID ?!? thanks ^_^ EDIT: is just for curiosity, nothing else.
I know that once you upgrade from 7 oem to 10 you can do a clean Install and the activation remains, but what about doing another upgrade on the same PC? what I want to do is keep my win 8.1 enterprise N settings with a win 10 pro (non N) install, would it work to do the following; run win 7 on a different partition, upgrade it to 10, once it's activated, delete this partition, boot to 8.1 enterprise and upgraded it to 10, would the activation from the 7 to 10 remain or what would happen?
Yes, view o show ..I mean how are composed this HW ID or if still a MS secret for now, if is composed by number, alfabetical character, random character, sha-1 checksum of sometings. I fact I mean if possible explain where this HW ID is sstored on my pc, I don't care if MS spy me, i don't have skeleton in my closet so they can take all my information about me.
I would think the HWID wouldn't need to be stored at all on the PC, as required it could be generated on the spot. If it is stored on the PC and we find it.. we might have offline activation possibilities? But, I imagine part of the HWID could be associated with something in your "slmgr /dlv" results.
I made a new post at Tom's Hardware Win10 forum. Can't post the links yet. Baiscally: Everybody are getting the same keys for Win10 upgrades. How do we do a clean install next year? Without free upgrade prompt in Win7 and 8, Windows 10 will not get activated. Since there won't be free upgrades next year, how are we going to clean install, or reactivate when a motherboard or storage gets upgraded?
[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961)]First you must upgrade from Windows 7 or 8.1. After you upgrade your hardware ID's are registered to Microsoft's servers. That is your key. Do not enter a key when it's time to clean install. It will just automatically activate. [/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961)]You can not make to many changes to your hardware. How many changes can you make? No one knows for sure. Changing out or replacing your motherboard will surely brake your activation. I never had a problem changing the hard drive. Just think of it as a oem license and not retail. [/COLOR]
No matter what changes I make to the hardware, I should still be able to reinstall Windows as long as I'm using it on a single computer. I guess we'll just have to wait for somebody to come up with a trick to active Win10 using generic keys.
Hi, I have a laptop with legit Win7, I did an upgrade to 10 and confirmed it was activated, then I changed ssd and did a clean install, clicked skip whenever it asked for a product key, and now it won't activate It says 0xC004C003 product key is blocked. Can i go back to win7? upgrade again?
likely you need to follow the 'activation by phone' procedure (usually during the phone call interacting with the automated system is enough) which will in the end give you a new valid key to activate your windows instance. (likely again, now that your original key seems to be gone invalid, you'll need to do this also if you do a new clean install of W7) For W10, i read at least on one site (maybe winsupersite.com but not sure anymore) that the upgrade license could be more stricly tied to your 'device' than it was for the past versions, implicitly suggesting that something like the above procedure might not succeed and once you had an hardware change such that it invaldates your key, your free upgrade to W10 is gone. But didn't read anything explict and offcial on this, absolutely not sure of it nor tried to reactivate W10 after a key-invalidating hardware change. (actually, i never did a W10 installation yet, so sorry if i provided any wrong information due to something specific to W10 i don't know yet)
Since i have seen no Question about it in the FAQ, is there a "Minimum" Wait - Time after a succesfull upgrade before you clean - install your PC ( does it take a while till Microsoft pushes your HWID to their Server ) or can you update it immediatly ? Spent hours updating win7 bevor install win 10 and i dont want to update win7 in the end again
i'd guess once you see W10 activated on your machine, the 'trick' is done, but personally not tried yet.
Yeah, they never broke OA3.0 and online activation backup ... but will create an activator for generic keys in Win 10 ... SHURE!!! Spoiler
I have done clean installs on systems after 10-15 minutes of finishing the upgrade and came back as activated automatically. I have also done clean installs on systems a week after the upgrade and struggled to get activated. It depends on the load the servers have at that moment, though it's been remarkably well since last week. Give it a try. You will be activated again, chances are, almost immediately.
Just to clarify, is the upgrade activation from 7/8/8.1 going to be possible for one year? I only ask because I didn't wait to upgrade but just did a clean install and activated via KMS. In other words: Is it a better idea to go back to 8.1 and then upgrade to get "official" activation and if so, can I do this at any time in the next year? TIA