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Windows 10 Product Key And Activation: How To Find It And How It
Works
Here’s everything you need to know about how to find your Windows
10 product key and how activation works on free upgraded versus new
retail copies of Windows 10.
Whether you availed Microsoft’s free Windows 10 upgrade offer,
which by the way is available only till July 29th of 2016, or got a
new license for your PC off retail, online, or via
subscription-based sources like Microsoft’s own MSDN service and
the likes, here’s what you need to know about Windows 10 product
keys and the full process involved in activating a machine on
Microsoft’s latest desktop OS.
If you upgraded your PC to Windows 10 from a genuine copy of either
Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 7, your license will be tied to the
hardware you upgrade on, not your Microsoft account, and you won’t
get any new product key either. You can verify this using any
third-party product key fetching software like ProduKey or The
Ultimate PID Checker. They will show you generic product keys like
TX9XD-98N7V-6WMQ6-BX7FG-H8Q99 for Windows 10 Home and
VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T for Windows 10 Pro edition.
So what if you want to clean install Windows 10 on the same
machine? Yes you can do that by downloading an ISO file, turning it
into a USB drive or DVD media and then running the setup for clean
install. During install, when Windows setup asks you for product
key, simply skip the step and let it complete the installation.
Once Windows 10 clean install is complete, your copy of Windows
will activate automatically as soon as you connect to Internet.
This is because Microsoft knows you clean installed on the same
hardware. You can always check your activation status from
eitherSettings (WinKey+I) > Update & security >
Activation:
Now if down the road you decide to change the hardware, you will
need to call Microsoft support, inform them about the change to get
your copy activated.
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The TL;DR version of this is: If you used Windows 10 free upgrade
option, you won’t get a unique product key. Your license will be
tied to the hardware you upgraded Windows 10 on, not your Microsoft
account. Clean installs will activate automatically as long as they
are done on the same hardware.
System requirements
If you want to upgrade to Windows 10 on your PC or tablet, here’s
what it takes.
Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC
RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Hard disk space: 16 GB for 32-bit OS 20 GB for 64-bit OS
Graphics card: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
Display: 800x600
Windows 10 full localization languages
Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Bulgarian (Bulgaria), Chinese (Simplified,
China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan),
Croatian (Croatia), Czech (Czech Republic), Danish (Denmark), Dutch
(Netherlands), English (United Kingdom), English (United States),
Estonian (Estonia), Finnish (Finland), French (France), French
(Canada), German (Germany), Greek (Greece), Hebrew (Israel),
Hungarian (Hungary), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean
(Korea), Latvian (Latvia), Lithuanian (Lithuania), Norwegian,
Bokmål (Norway), Polish (Poland), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese
(Portugal), Romanian (Romania), Russian (Russia), Serbian (Latin,
Serbia), Slovak (Slovakia), Slovenian (Slovenia), Spanish (Spain,
International Sort), Spanish (Mexico), Swedish (Sweden), Thai
(Thailand), Turkish (Turkey), Ukrainian (Ukraine)
| Win 10 Home | Win 10 Pro |
Create and join a domain (work network) | No | Yes |
BitLocker | No | Yes |
Group policy management | No | Yes |
Remote Desktop | No | Yes |
Hyper-V (virtualisation) | No | Yes |
Assigned Access | No | Yes |
Enterprise Mode Internet Explorer | No | Yes |
Windows Store for Business | No | Yes |
Trusted Boot | No | Yes |
Windows Update for Business | No | Yes |
Max. supported RAM | 128 GB | 2 TB |