New activation scheme in Windows 10 RTM (10240) - Product keys aren't required

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  1. cbutters

    cbutters MDL Junior Member

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    #1 cbutters, Jul 16, 2015
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  2. phazedelta1

    phazedelta1 MDL Junior Member

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    What about those of us that are constantly changing our hardware? How is that going to affect us?
     
  3. EFA11

    EFA11 Avatar Guru

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    cool beans, nice shot of MDL logo in the video :D
     
  4. cbutters

    cbutters MDL Junior Member

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    The video just serves as proof, the real story here is that microsoft will activate computers without a product key and without a microsoft account!
     
  5. EFA11

    EFA11 Avatar Guru

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    Hey Angry Italian, that is an upgrade, not a clean install. Clean installs have been the biggest focus of concern. :biggrin:
     
  6. bromanbro

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    Means you'll have to Upgrade from 7/8.1 to "register" that system.


    Also means that after first year you're SOL

    Only applies to people with 7/8 retail keys, obviously. People with OEM keys can only activate on one system to begin with.


    Yes, if you do massive hardware changes, you'll be SOL on that system if its HWID changes.
     
  7. Pasta88

    Pasta88 MDL Expert

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    sol ????........................
     
  8. spidernz

    spidernz MDL Senior Member

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    This must be for if you do it free.
    I doubt if you got a retail purchased OS that you'd be tied to the one system without being able to do massive hardware changes.

    There'd be no point, you'd be shelling out $150-200 each time seems ridiculous.
     
  9. darkodar

    darkodar MDL Addicted

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    Maybe only with UEFI , my PC with legacy boot is not activated after clean install windows 10 build 10240 pro iso!
     
  10. cbutters

    cbutters MDL Junior Member

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    Did your PC once have Windows 10 Insider Preview activated on it?
     
  11. coromonadalix

    coromonadalix MDL Senior Member

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    thats whats bothering me a lot, i have plenty of hdd in hot swap configuration, i change them once in a while, i hope the win 10 activation will not be tied to HW generated id's pfff
    But it would be a good protection for M$oft, maybe bypassing the kms generated key's or kms activators in the wild ???
     
  12. cbutters

    cbutters MDL Junior Member

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    Simple HDD changes should be OK... I used a different SSD to do the Clean install so I had a working and activated version in case I needed it. So hdd/ssd changes still work.
     
  13. coromonadalix

    coromonadalix MDL Senior Member

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    i have 10 hdd's, it will surely create activation problems ... time to test that theory
     
  14. FatalIll

    FatalIll MDL Novice

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    I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate activated by Daz Loader... If I wanted to clean install to Windows 10 10240 Pro, what would be the recommended steps?
     
  15. Krutonium

    Krutonium MDL Senior Member

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    Well by definition, a Clean install is formatting, so back up all your stuff, format, and install 10.
     
  16. White Wizard

    White Wizard MDL Junior Member

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    I did a clean installation of windows 10. 10240, and it wouldn't activate, I also wasn't able to personalize the background screen, but now I am able to personalize those background screens and going to system properties it says that I need to connect to the internet to activate windows, but I am already connected to the internet :confused:
     
  17. akhmedtaia

    akhmedtaia MDL Addicted

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  18. pisthai

    pisthai Imperfect Human

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    And what's about use an Microsoft Account?!
     
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  19. White Wizard

    White Wizard MDL Junior Member

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    I also used my Microsoft account.