Alright, I did some digging, but couldn't find the exact answer to my question, which is this: I just did the Anniversary upgrade to my backup system running Win10 Pro, and it was activated with KMSpico which did it's job great for the last year. The upgrade went just fine, and I checked in System, and it reports that the Windows is still activated. All well and good. But my question is, now that the OS survived the upgrade, would it be possible for me to uninstall KMSpico now, and still have the new Win10 remain activated, and keep the digital entitlement on the MS servers for any future re-installations of Win10?
Yes. HWID for that machine is @ MS database. Re-installs of W10 on that machine will/should activate fine.
Nope, not exactly what I posted. What I said was could I keep the DE that I ASSUMED MS gave me during the Anniversary upgrade... Key word being assumed... So, from the way you both are talking, I did not get a DE during the upgrade process then? My bad. I just thought that since it still showed as activated, that MS must have assumed the last version was legit. Sort of like going from a Daz Win7 to a Win10 upgrade... So, from what I gather, I will need to keep KMS on the machine, yes?
Last I knew, even after 29 July the Assistive Technologies route was still activating upgrades from KMS clients and from W7 activated by Daz loader. No idea what the situation is now via that route, there was a thread created about MS blocking it soon, can't find the thread, maybe it got merged elsewhere - dunno! Well is that machine now DE activated or not? If yes, then bin KMSPico.
@ ChaserLee did your activation say " Windows is activated using your organization's activation service"?
I do not know. I have no knowledge base of how to find out that information. Care to enlighten me, or shall I go digging?
I did not get any kind of notice like that during the upgrade process. And when I pull up System, it just says "Windows is Activated" Nothing more there....
Thank you! Now I see the message Bio was asking about. It says "Windows is activated using your organization's activation service". That is different that what I see here on my main computer. So, I gather I do not have a DE on the backup computer, and I need to keep KMS installed or find a way to obtain a DE now...
And actually, I'm not sure how to go about trying to get a DE on the backup system. Originally, I had performed a clean install of Win10 Pro last July, using the Genuine Ticket.xml method (going from a genuine Win7 Ultimate to a clean install of Win10 Pro), but after 2 attempts which failed, I went the KMS route. The reason I had to use the KMS method was that obviously the genuine Win7 Ultimate installation was gone, and I did not have the sticker on the machine to re-install it, then do a upgrade instead of clean install.
I do not have the linked to msa part, and I do not understand the rest of your post about being optional... My backup machine is running using a msa, but it was activated using KMS
OK, to simplify things... Now that I've found out that the activation is by "Windows is activated using your organization's activation service", because I run KMS, is there a method whereby I can get a genuine DE at this point? I'd like to be able to have that DE, and drop the KMS, if possible.
See back @ Post #7 antonio did it a few days ago - Try it. Unless one of the others who are more into this can post a quicker/easier way.