I just installed 8.1 with a provided key, and then switched to my legit key (had to do phone activation) and that worked without issue Then I just added the media center feature back with my valid key, and after a restart it worked like a charm. I'm assuming most of the issues are coming from clean installs. My install was simply an upgrade. All is working great for me now.
Is the best thing to do to upgrade from a previous activated win 8 install and then apply wmc and activate again or do a clean windows 8.1 install and apply wmc and activate?
hey guys! I have another question regarding WMC! I have Windows 8.1 Pro x64 with WMC activated, now can I backup the data.dat file and install W8.1 Pro x64 on my Dell Desktop & paste the data.dat file? Will it get activated then?
Guys, my Win8 upgrade key was bought in the UK Microsoft store and free WMC key was also received me being in the EU region. While following the tutorial in the 1st post, on step #5 where I need to enter my WMC key, I received an error, something related to a region. So does this mean that I need to wait for the European RTM "N" leak?
I tried many methods but no success in installing windows 8.1 pro with media centre. I have windows 8 pro with WMC activated using free wmc key. tried with clean install of 8.1 pro then added wmc using general key but never got success in installing my free wmc key. then I made win8.1 pro wmc iso using all methods mentioned on this forum but it also does not accept my free wmc key in clean install. when I try to upgrade then it ask for wmc key and here my free wmc key is not getting accepted. if I use ei.cfg then install verifies the wmc key and rejects it. now only hope is using that "magic data.dat" file. can anyone PM this data.dat file please.