Windows 10 activation

Discussion in 'Windows 10' started by x86, Jan 17, 2018.

  1. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    You prolly selected the option to keep apps when you upgraded? Now you can just enter the generic HWID key for pro and it should show: "Activated with a Digital License"
     
  2. serendipityguy

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    So what if you have 3 new workstations, all 10. You configure one then clone it to the other 2.

    The first one was activated.
    Now the other two will not.

    How do you activate if you don't have the original activation Serial Numbers or Keys?

    HELP!
     
  3. digitech

    digitech MDL Member

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    Yes I kept all apps when upgrading. Do you recommend doing otherwise?
     
  4. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    Keeping the apps will also keep the autopico running. For just establishing a HWID i always select: keep nothing.
     
  5. s1ave77

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    HWID is hardware-bound. Needs to create a HWID for each device separately afaik :g:.
     
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  6. digitech

    digitech MDL Member

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    Was the first one activated with a genuine key?
     
  7. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    @mkuba50 posted a dirty trick in Yen's thread, but i seems to give problems with licenses of pre-installed UWP apps.
     
  8. mehdibleu

    mehdibleu MDL Expert

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    UWP apps ??
     
  9. s1ave77

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    UWP = Universal Windows Platform = Store Apps/Games
     
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  10. whatever127

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    You have slightly misunderstood what I have written. I meant that applications installed by user will lose license, but actually I were wrong.

    I have tested the case with additional installed apps. Windows creates copy of all needed licenses in XML files for preinstalled apps. Applications installed by user are not stored in ClipSVC, because removing tokens.dat does not affect them.
     
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  11. Superfly

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    Yup, it has to be a shadow of tokens that's restored - both ClipSVC and SPP - question is where is that BLOB?
     
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  12. serendipityguy

    serendipityguy MDL Novice

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    I don't know, it was one of those out of the box experiences
     
  13. Rickkins

    Rickkins MDL Senior Member

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    Exactly what, in your opinion, makes "KMS_VL_ALL v19" better than Toolkit...??

    Thanks.
     
  14. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    Uptodate, 30KB big, not dotnetfx dependent and easy to use $OEM$ folder with everything you need :)
     
  15. mehdibleu

    mehdibleu MDL Expert

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    because using KMS_VL_ALL allows to get renewal activation automatically without the need of activating manually once the grace period is finished and that's what KMS_VL_ALL does perfectly.
     
  16. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    MTK can do that too ;)
     
  17. mehdibleu

    mehdibleu MDL Expert

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    oh ok, didn't know that so let's say it's way faster to do it with KMS_VL_ALL :p
     
  18. whatever127

    whatever127 MDL PHP Wizard

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    ClipSVC
    Code:
    C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\ClipSVC\Archive\Apps
    GenuineTicket.xml is renamed with UUID and placed here by Windows after applying it.


    SPPSVC
    Code:
    C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens

    That's my guess.
     
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  19. heeheehaha

    heeheehaha MDL Novice

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    I've got a laptop that came with win 10 home. Has an MSDM key that I'm guessing is stored in UEFI. It also has OEM SLIC 2.1 bios so it'll auto activate to win 7 pro for me.

    I've tried USB/DVD/medai creator tool upgrade and every time I go that route, it says it wants to upgrade me to win 10 home even though I'm currently on win 7 sp1 pro.

    On my other computers without the MSDM key, I was able to go SLIC 2.1 OEM activation win 7 sp1 pro -> win 10 pro upgrade.

    Was hoping to get that working on this laptop but I'm not having much luck. What am I missing here?
     
  20. s1ave77

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    In that case create an ISO and put an ei.cfg file in \sources\ folder with following content:
    Code:
    [EditionID]
    Professional
    
    [Channel]
    Retail
     
    [VL]
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    Then use it to do the upgrade,
     
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