First, let’s use the Slmgr command to access your license information. To do so, run the following command in CMD. The command will give you a brief description of your license information along with ...

After working on my Mom's PC for hours, I needed to reinstall Windows 10 PRO OEM. I removed her hard drive, and added an SSD. I used SLMGR -UBX to remove/reset Windows license from HDD, but only after ...

I'm prepping a bunch of retired HP corporate laptops (6470b) to give them to students in need. I have the OEM Windows 10 install CD. When I do a clean install, Windows 10 is automatically activated ...

Many users booting into their Windows 10 PCs this morning are being met with a deactivated machine as Microsoft's activation servers struggle with an ongoing issue. Users on Reddit have noticed that ...

License keys for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 can be used to activate a fresh copy of the Windows 10 Creators Update, even if Microsoft has "officially" stopped offering free upgrades to Windows 10 back in ...

Microsoft seems to have an every-other-version curse. We’re not sure how much of this is confirmation bias, but consider the track record of releases. Windows 95 was game-changing, Windows 98 famously ...

A glitch with Microsoft’s activation servers appears to be disrupting many users’s PCs, as Windows 10 erroneously reports their systems as either un-activated or downgraded from Windows 10 Pro to ...

Microsoft is working on a fix for a bug in its activation server that has caused Windows 10 Pro machines to report that their license has not been activated. The issue was causing panic for some ...

Note: This article was originally posted on December 1st, 2019, but has since been updated to reflect the current version of Windows 10 and new steps that should be taken to prevent problems with the ...