(Retail versions of Win10 may be transferable.) You can’t transfer it to a replacement system. But a Win10 OEM key is tied to the original PC - and only that machine*. These resellers, even I use one of them regularly offers only keys but many of them do not send you a COA.Īnother speculated “source” is abandoned Win10 systems. COA is a license -it has a key printed on it. I hoped Microsoft would be more clear about this. They need Pro as a base license.Ī key, unfortunately, is no license. No even more: I meant this more general so especially for Home and ProĮnt / Edu cannot even be upgraded without a license. I think the error message is fairly recent as I don't ever recall seeing it before, but my memory is a little sketchy at best.Įxperience Windows Feature Experience Pack notes that this does not include Enterprise versions, and goes on to say
Has anyone heard of such a thing and is it something that I will have to lie awake at night worrying about? But that is the issue as I have never (or at least ever recall) tried to input a different key so something unknown to me tried to. Now interestingly, I did a search online and someone had the exact same number as me, hence why it seems like a standard volume key.Īgain, everything is working properly (I use a local standard user account but I also have the original MS account when I first activated windows) and windows indicates all is well and properly activated, other than the error message. I have replaced some of the numbers/letters with * even though the number looks like some sort of generic volume key. Even though windows is activated digitally and says so, I noticed an error that said : "The last product key (id:*****-*0000-00000-AAOEM) you entered can't be used on this copy of Windows (0x********)".
A couple of days ago, I was reading a thread from another forum and I was curious about my setup and went into the Settings to check on my activation status. It came with Win 10 Home that has worked just fine over the past year, currently on 21H2. I bought a "refurb" HP Prodesk 600 G1 off Newegg a year ago.
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