A time-limited Black Friday promotion aimed at Spanish buyers is again shining a spotlight on third‑party key marketplaces: GvGMall is advertising steep discounts on Windows and Office OEM keys — including a Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 key promoted at €11.60 when the checkout coupon GVGMM is...
GvGMall’s Singles’ Day sweepstakes-style discounts have reappeared in Europe, promising Windows and Office activation keys for a fraction of official retail prices — but the deal comes with important caveats for anyone who plans to save hundreds by buying a cut‑price license online.
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Windows 11 Pro is being promoted as a bargain and a productivity leap at the same time — with reports of deeply discounted licenses (as low as the low‑teens in some offers) circulating alongside Microsoft's steady rollout of AI enhancements to the OS, most notably a revamped Copilot with...
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Microsoft is urging users to prepare for a hard deadline—Windows 10 reaches end of support this October, and a flood of promotional offers has followed, including a widely shared deal that advertises Windows 11 Pro for as little as $14.97 as users scramble to move off an unsupported OS...
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For many PC users, the moment they unbox a new device running Windows 11 Home, they’re excited to get started. But it’s only when the need for more advanced features arises—such as enhanced security, remote desktop access, or domain management—that the limitations of the Home edition come into...
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I reserved win 10 months ago for my laptop built by HP and win7 installed by HP and after finally getting the ok I downloaded as instructed. After reboot my desktop was weird like half win10 and 7. I go into logs and it says my registry files are corrupt so luckily I revert back to 7 and now my...
The laptop is an Asus R500A with Windows 8 (not 8.1) that I just purchased from a guy on Kijiji. I got the thing home and did the recovery on it, all went as it should have and I was able to boot straight to the desktop where I went about performing the usual new Windows OS tasks; updates and...
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I've recently bought a Dell Inspirion notebook with Windows 8.1 Home Edition 64 bit OEM pre-installed on it. Now, what i want to do is to replace the HDD with SSD, so i did a little research and....well, I' am more confused now! But first thing first.
For those who want to tell me about...
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I recently did an update of my machine from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. The update process did not show any errors or warnings and by the time it finished I was under the impression that everything went smooth.
After the update I was testing the environment and discovered that one of my desktop...
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My notebook has a Win 8 OEM key in UEFI.
After wiping my hard disc I want to install Win 8 retail instead of OEM version.
Because this is not possible with stored OEM Win 8 key I want to boot with a Win 7 BootCD and
patch the UEFI with a Win 8 retail serial key.
For that I need a Program...
Can somebody please explain the Producy Key and ID key and the validation process please because i am having difficulty in validating my copy of windows.
I will explain because I have messed up somewhere trying to be clever:
Firstly ..I purchased a upgrade win 32/64 discs with key but found...
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By Tim Conneally, Betanews
The Lenovo OEM key that leaked earlier this week and allowed Windows 7 Ultimate to be cracked is being blacklisted, according to a blog post last night from Alex Kochis, Director of Genuine Windows at Microsoft.
Kochis says, "Yesterday we were alerted to reports of a...
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