I can't believe it.
— TCNO/TroubleChute (@TCNOco) March 11, 2023
My official Microsoft Store Windows 10 Pro key wouldn't activate. Support couldn't help me yesterday.
Today it was elevated. Official Microsoft support (not a scam) logged in with Quick Assist and ran a command to activate windows.
BRO IT'S A CRACK
NO CAP pic.twitter.com/0vcRGu9PDE
Imagine buying Windows in 2023
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Do people just not hold on to their old copies of Windows? I have 2 Professional keys and another 2 or 3 Home keys I've accumulated over 15 years.
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Laptops come preinstalled is there any way to hold on like that? My last lite one came with a DOS system I ran with pirated windows my current normie laptop came preinstalled with windows and office I can't be a cool pirate anymore.
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Some keys are "tied" to the hardware, while others can be used on any PC (one at a time).
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You can spoof that hardware ID with MAS and make windows think any PC is pre-registered.
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That's pretty cool. I've only used that thing that writes god-knows-what to BIOS that lets it legitimately activate on W7. Even lasts through re-installations or even W10.
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I think most windows licenses, including the hardware ones, only deactivate after you've swapped out like minimum 10 components in your pc lol. Guess it's how it determines what's a 'new pc' or not
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At one point you only needed to swap out the motherboard, that's what it considered a new computer.
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The key was on the back of my Surface Pro 3. There's also ways of pulling it from the Windows registry, iirc.
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IIRC you can't get the full key anymore, most of it is randomized in the registry, only like the last 4 digits are real
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Im not based I just somehow ended up with lots of computers
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I had a volume key for winxp that I sniped from work and used that for years
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