Microsoft stopped this and instead started forcing users to activate in other ways. With Windows 10 and 11, Microsoft is even ...

If when you try to activate Windows 11/10, you receive an error message that Windows couldn’t be activated, then this post may help you. Maybe you upgraded to ...

With Windows 10, Microsoft has rewritten the rules for how it performs product activation on retail upgrades of Windows, including the free upgrades available for a year beginning on July 29 ...

Modern versions of Windows, Windows 10, and Windows 11, now use a combination of product keys (a unique string of 25 characters), online activation, and hardware fingerprinting (tying your copy of ...

Have you upgraded to Windows 11/10 and not been able to explore all features because of activation errors? There are some common activation errors that can show up on your newly installed Windows.

Clean install or upgrade to Windows 10? Once you put the ISO onto that USB key or burn to a DVD, you are all set. You do not have to Activate Windows 10 Perhaps one of the little unknown secrets ...

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 ...

Microsoft this week announced a seemingly minor change to its activation rules for Windows 10, effective with the Anniversary Update coming this summer. The announcement was buried in the release ...