I re-inserted The generic Pro key and tryied to activate several times without succes. I retryied just one minute before and now it is activated! Very mysterious...
Edit: Found that this was introduced in 1607 (transferring a digital license just by going through the troubleshooter and clicking on your old PC, and not having to phone MS any more). Nothing new. Disregard...
Hello, I recently changed hardware for my desktop, and with hardware the also purchased a windows 10 pro license and received a activation key (OEM) I didnt had to activate windows - Using a pre-activated windows copy - but i want to permanently activate Windows with the license i purchased as i want to avoid reinstalling Windows just for the activation (which is the easy way) Can someone please point me in the right direction which slmgr commands i need to use to change from VL to OEM activation?
Just inserting the OEM key should be enough: Code: slmgr /ipk <oem key here> Without < and > ofcourse ps what do you mean by pre-activated windows copy?
Thanks for the info! Regarding your question; i don't know to be honest. I upgraded form windows 8.1 to 10 two years ago, and it never asked to activate, and when i checked the activation, it says " windows 10 is activated using your organization's activation service" I purchased a refurbished desktop and it had a clean windows 8.1 installed on it - i guess it has been activated with some KMS tool if i think about it as i never had to do it myself
Did you ever do a clean windows 10 install after the upgrade? Because now it shows KMS activation, but when the upgrade was from a 8.1 KMS activated install that could be shown but after a clean install it should say "Activated by a digital license". Can you do: Code: slmgr /dli and Code: slmgr /dlv
Christmas came early for me, again. I've activated Windows 10 Pro 15063.483 (KMS) with the original Windows 8 Pro Version Upgrade key which I bought and used back in December 2012.
sorry for my own mistake KMSed windows 8.1 CAN GET the digital entitlement . I just did it. scenario : 1. clean install [win 8.1 32 bit Pro_VL untouched] on a laptop 2. install as drivers only intel chipset 3. activate win 8.1 with MTKV 4. net card had driver , wifi not , so I plug the net cable for internet connection live 5. generate genuineticket file and save it 6. clean install of [win 10 17.03 64 bits Pro untouched] on same machine 7. install intel chipset drivers + restart 8. I let windows 10 enough time to put itself all drivers founded from internet (>30 minutes) 11. after restart I followed exactly the steps of xinso from his post #70 in this thread 10. I get digital license with ...3V66T serial [ maybe the OP will be updated ] THANK YOU xinso and also all community here c
Hi.. I have legit unused windows xp & vista oem keys.. Is there anyway, I can use this oem key legally to activate windows 10? Thanks in advance.
NO . no matter if keys are used or unused. they are not eligible by MS policy upgrade from previous OS (xp and vista keys) win 7 , 8.x keys are only eligible for upgrade to 10. c
Hi guys, I purchased a new pc and built it recently. I just downloaded the win 10 pack on microsoft website and put it on a bootable usb. After the installation was complete I ran the r@in activator which was working back in the days. But now windows keep telling me that my licence will soon expire. Is there a way to bypass that without going back to win 7, activate it and upgrade to win 10? Didn't find the solution on the post.. (sorry for bad english and newb question, thanks)
Am sorry, I saw that thread but just opened the first one and didn't look any further. Thank you for the answer anyway.
How would that work? You can activate by an externally running kms server but not really advisable, unless the kms server is managed by yourself.
I am doing a 64bit clean install on a fresh new SSD using a DVD from MS MCT download ISO mentioned above. Is this the best method to do a clean install? (update to enterprise) TIA