I'm not sure about that! I was install 8.1 on my Laptop which had WMC installed to with 8 and I was getting problems. After 8.1 was activated with my legal key, used the WMC key to re-install WMC, which it did and than was getting the Watermark! Windows were not more activated. Was try to call to MS but problem with Handy service. So I re-installed and activated 8.1 again, tried the same again with the same result! 3. install of 8.1 and now no WMC! Never mind not really need for that! Fact is, that P-Key for WMC was used on my Laptop with Windows 8 and I couldn't get it automatically activated again. It may will work with Phone and I'll try that in the next week again. Have an HDD Image now with all apps installed as well, and would need only 20min for the get a working and activated 8.1 in case that will also fail again!
Made a Win8.1Pro+WMC+Net3.5 X64 ISO , updated OP with screen-shot. Reminder: please don't post request for files or ISO's in this thread, not allowed in MDL.
I have windows 8 Pro and I activated it by phone method, If I installed Windows 8.1 can I use the same ID keys to activate it (I didn't change any hardware)?
I have windows 8 Pro VUP OEM and I NOT activated it by phone method, If I installed Windows 8.1 I NOT use the same ID keys to activate it.
On the same computer MAYBE! If no hardware was changed! On an different computer the ID would be different and not match with that you were getting by Phone Activation. I was use to install 3 times in the raw on my laptop and everything went just fine! But that was the exact same Laptop!
If it is your own retail key, no problem, If it is a MAK, no. If it is a retail key you got from web and was blocked(after you activated your win8), you are out of luck, the phone reply will be something like "victim of pirated software".
Working awesome FaiKee thanks only issue was one of my own (Looks like you did the same) that was putting a space between product key and the command lol. Did this with the x64 ISO also Time to make one for each machine. Or might just make 5x install.wim's (5 PC's) and make a rather large custom ISO that i can add to a USB stick for installing Windows on my own machine with. Would be nice is someone made a simple program to make this more automatic though. But when advance tokens manager is out for 8.1 (if it does come out.) one of these ISO's will be enough as users can use anyone's ProWMC 8.1 ISO and install offline and just replace activation data with there own that they backed up with the token manager. Then its just a quick reconnect and activate via phone / activate online (if we work it all out, i'm sure we will soon.)
@ Faikee - Can you please remove this "(Suppose to work also for Enterprise)", because as of now there is no KEY from Windows 8 Enterprise which accepts in Windows 8.1 Enterprise. Cheez
Guys Windows 8.1 can be activated with Tokens.dat & Dat.dat from windows 8 if you have a backup of w8 activation with the same key of windows 8 activated I activated win 8.1 with this way
Hi, Just a little question. If I asked for a WMC key when it was free but never used it, is it lost forever as told in the email ? Thanks.
Actually you don't have to do it yourselves, I have made both X86 and X64 ISO's (reminder : Don't ask for links in the thread!!), so all you need to do is DISM mount it and with the command: dism /image:E:\mount /set-productkeyyour WMC key) It will be specific to your WMC key, of course, you could always do it afresh with DISM with your own tokens/data.dat's. I know my friend's "little group" has a way to work around this problem, I just don't know how........ My win8.1Ent has PS as default, but Pro has CMD as default. You could try it out in win8 and win8.1, I had tried this with a WMC key on win8, it won't activate, and I don't want to make phone calls because I have no use for WMC anyway.