submitted 1 year ago by ninakuup21@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello people I have recently changed my CPU, Motherboard and RAMs so I was planning on reinstalling windows on my PC. Last time I installed Windows was probably or so 10 years ago and I can't remember for the life of me how I activated it.

Any recommendations on activating the new install? Or is it too much trouble nowadays and should I just buy a key?

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[-] JasSmith@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

To be fair, there’s an almost zero percent chance of the key being revoked. Microsoft sells (or sold) W10 keys for peanuts all over the world depending on the market. They don’t region lock. Their current strategy is monetising services, so there’s no risk they’re suddenly going to u-turn on their decade long strategy and kick off MS users.

Worst case scenario OP has to use one of the hacks explained in this submission in a few years.

[-] yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Why go through all that when MAS exists. Just activate it yourself with a single script, use the same thing for MS Office as well. I'll never understand why people choose to pay for stolen/enterprise keys