product key

Hi, Why when Windows 10 upgraded to Windows 11 the product key didnt activate the Windows 11 version. Is there a way to activate Windows 11 and find a product key? Thanks,

Can't find my windows product key anywhere, I looked on the laptop, on the box, in the bios and using several commands. The only thing i have is the last few digits of my product key and my product id. I really really need to activate windows. Please, any help is appreciated.

Dear forum, I want to upgrade my windows 11 home version to the pro version. Does home upgrades to pro when i change the product key in windows, or do i need to install windows pro, as a clean install? Thanks

I need to change a corrupted setting in personalisation, but get the message that I need to activate Windows first. My computer started as Windows 7 and was upgraded to Windows 10 using the upgrade option available at the time. I have a Windows 7 product key and a product key for Windows 10...

Hei fellas. Hope i won't get murdered for this question but i'm at a loss. I have a Windows 10 x64 System and after the last update (around june this year) it just won't boot. Therefor i don't have very much Info accessible. It starts to try and install the last Update "do not shut off your...

I have a Thinkpad T500 which I had purchased in 2010 and had previously given and received back from my sister. It was purchased with Windows 7, and I later upgraded it to Windows 10. It also has Microsoft office 2007 on it, which I would like to keep. I no longer have any of the original SW...

Hello. I have recently found an old Dell Optiplex 7010 that my family was going to throw away, which was from my aunt's old job. It runs Windows 7 Enterprise, is locked with the business's credentials and I really want to see if I can downgrade it to Windows 7 Home so I can upgrade it to Windows...

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Hi! This is probably one of the most common questions in this forum, but could not find the answer, so sorry for that. I have inserted a new SSD into a ThinkPad laptop. I have the original Vista Product Key, but no media. Where can I download Vista so that I can boot the new SSD disk?

I just had my computer repaired and the technician put in Windows 10 Pro. I get a message saying to go to settings to activate windows. I do not have a product key. The technician said it will kick in in 3 to 4 days. I asked him if this was a legal installation and he said he bought it at Best...

As the title says, I got my PC from a dying company and it has some Company policy set on it like auto installing and restarting in the middle of the night. I have tried deleting group policies in group policy editor and such and nothing has worked. I was thiing if i change product key, will it...

I bought a Win10 laptop and had a major crash a couple years ago. I had lost the paper where I wrote down my product key, and can no longer find the whole thing. The repair center kept the old install in a partition. I was recently able to recover part of my original product key. Is there...

Wanted to upgrade my old HP laptop from using Vista Home Premium to Win 7. Installed a clean copy of Win 7 Pro N. Installation not good and product key given not valid. Using on-line guide to restore Vista from "Windows.Old" was able to return setup to Vista ' almost. On start received the...

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Just installed win 8, but failed to activate the installation. Is it no longer possible to do so, as the system is no longer updated by MS? When I try I only get the answer: This key does not work. Check it out and try again or try another one. Can I somehow check the key, other than to see...

I have a VAIO core i5 laptop that died, seemingly of some sort of hard disk issues (or possibly a virus? ... However, McAfee didn't alert me to any virus problems). I tried lots of fixes (including using a bootable recovery USB that I had created in the past. For some reason, however, that...

I have a VAIO core i5 laptop that died, seemingly of hard disk trouble. After trying lots of fixes (including using my bootable USB, which just wouldn't work), I finally managed to get the computer to initiate recovery via 'VAIO Assist' and to do some hard disk repair, and then it seemed to work...

Due to poor performance on my old PC I'm thinking of doing a complete Windows 10 reload to clean things up. I have Outlook 2013 that I originally bought on ebay some five years ago. Would I be able to re-use my existing product key? If so, how do I find my existing product key on my PC - I'm...

anyone know how to put win7 onto ide in old laptop. original install ran out i keep receiving windows not genuine.tried formatting with dariks boot and wont work.tried new install and required driver is missing.cannot make bootrec work. tried re-arm. no chance.simply only want win7 to...

Every time I open my laptop I get a message alerting me that it's time to renew my Windows 10 license. I got a free upgrade about a year after I bought my laptop (2014) and do not have a product key. The message I am getting is to go to PS settings and then Activation. At this point, I am...