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!
Hey Angry Italian, that is an upgrade, not a clean install. Clean installs have been the biggest focus of concern.
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.
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 $150-200 each time seems ridiculous.
Maybe only with UEFI , my PC with legacy boot is not activated after clean install windows 10 build 10240 pro iso!
thats whats bothering me a lot, i have plenty of hdd in hot swap configuration, i change them once in a while, i hope the win 10 activation will not be tied to HW generated id's pfff But it would be a good protection for M$oft, maybe bypassing the kms generated key's or kms activators in the wild ???
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.
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?
Well by definition, a Clean install is formatting, so back up all your stuff, format, and install 10.
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