deactivation

Hi all, I bought some additional ram and am planning to buy a new videocard in the near future. Will adding the ram and installing the new videocard result in the de-activation of my Windows 10 pro? Regards

Hi Friends, I have been indecisive whether I should deactivate the cache for certain sites, but I´m not too sure I am aware of all the benefits of doing that. What are the benefits of not depending on cache for a site to load? I know that you get to see certain design changes by not depending...

Hello. I've been using Bitlocker with no problem for a long time on Windows 8.1 Enterprise. A week ago, I deactivated Bitlocker for resizing the Windows partition. After that, I activated Bitlocker again and everything continued working OK. Now I'm performing the same operation backwards. I...

Hi everyone, A few years ago I purchased Windows 7 OEM and installed it on my laptop. Now I am thinking of buying a new laptop. I was told that OEM version can be installed only on one computer. Is that right? If so, maybe there is a way to somehow deactivate it on my current laptop and then...

Dears I bought asus notebook From 5 months installed windows 8.1 on it then I get partition recovery to my usb drive And formated my hard then I restored my hard but it know deactivated what can I do please

Preface: I'm building my own computer from scratch after having headaches with my current one (a Dell) for about 4 years. Seeing since it's come from Dell, they've saved me the pain of installing Windows 7 myself, and have also handily provided me with a sticker that displays Proof of License...

Daughter has and ASUS X55c-si 30202m that came with windows 8 preinstalled. It has been giving her nothing bu fits, giant pain in the butt, just doesnt run well.( like i cannot get windows defender to start, lots of weird little stuff like that.) but the interface is just horrible for her(metro)...

Currently more and more motherboards are released which support UEFI. Assume I don't want to use UEFI (e.g. because of compatibility reasons): Can I deactivate the UEFI features of the motherboard and switch back to "normal" BIOS? Peter

Anybody else seen this behavior? Why would changing a SATA controller to a different mode (AHCI to RAID) cause Windows to become deactivated? No Hard Drive changes were made. I will give it some time to see if it comes back, but this is strange. I do have Media Center installed, possibly the...

So I bought win7 and got two links for 32-bit and 64-bit win7 installations. I downloaded the 32-bit version, installed it and activated, but now after two years I'm migrating to new hardware and I want to know proper procedure to successfully migrate windows activation key from one machine to...

I didn't post in the XP section because it's pretty dead. A guy on WD forum is having a problem with his XP being deactivated when he plugs in his external HD. He's been getting the run around looking for help. Anybody got any suggestions? I sent him the thing about the wpa file to see if that...

So i activated the defaulted administrator account and put a password on it. Couple months later I deactivated the account before removing the password. I tried removing the password but it didn't let me, so I deactivated it. Now whenever I try to run something as administrator, it keeps asking...

So there i was listening to music on msn etc... and suddenly i get a pop up in the corner telling me that i need to activate my version of windows i found this odd because it has been activated for some time i tried to enter the product key from the side of my pc and its no longer valid...

Hello Everyone, Ill start by saying thankyou to all that will help me in this intriguing problem. Last night I put my computer into hibernation mode. I awoke this morning to find it doing some odd clicking noises every time i clicked on a link decided to scroll down using the keyboard. It...

I installed W7 Home Premium on my computer, because a lot of my games won't run on W7 I've decided to install said W7 on my wifes computer and go back to XP.My question is can I deactivate it or do I need to call MS for a new key?This is a retail upgrade copy.