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On 09/01/20 11:00, Mick wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:42:14 GMT Wols Lists wrote: |
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>> > On 08/01/20 09:26, Mick wrote: |
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>>> > > The OS Product Key for a Win 7 will not work on a Win 10, unless the free |
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>>> > > upgrade option had been performed before July 2016. At least it has not |
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>>> > > worked here ... You'll need a Product Key, Digital License, or a |
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>>> > > Microsoft |
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>>> > > Account which has been linked to an activated Windows 10 Digital License. |
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>> > I don't know what the date MS announced was, but this tactic certainly |
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>> > worked after that - I did it myself. The key statement there is "NEVER |
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>> > been used". If MS recognises the key, it will fail. |
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> This is interesting! By a Win7 key which has "never been used" do you mean |
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> not even used for activating the Win7 OS? Or never been used to upgrade Win7 |
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> to Win10? |
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Never been used to activate the OS. In other words, this will be TRUE |
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for any mass-market computer, if you've never got new Windows media for |
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a clean install. |
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The Windows that is on the computer when you buy it has been activated |
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using the manufacturer's bulk activation key. Iirc recent versions of |
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Windows don't ask for a product key when first run for exactly this |
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reason. And if you do a factory reset, it's still using the |
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manufacturer's bulk key. The key that's actually stuck to the computer |
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is NOT the key that it's using. |
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MS may have closed this loophole by now, but at the time it was a widely |
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advertised work-around to the shut down of freebie upgrades. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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