- CHANGE MOTHERBOARD ACTIVATE WINDOWS 10 SOFTWARE LICENSE
- CHANGE MOTHERBOARD ACTIVATE WINDOWS 10 INSTALL
- CHANGE MOTHERBOARD ACTIVATE WINDOWS 10 UPGRADE
- CHANGE MOTHERBOARD ACTIVATE WINDOWS 10 TRIAL
If you make significant hardware changes on your device, such as replacing your motherboard, Windows will no longer find a license that matches your device, and you’ll need to reactivate Windows to get it up and running. When installing Windows 11, the digital license associates itself with your device's hardware.
CHANGE MOTHERBOARD ACTIVATE WINDOWS 10 SOFTWARE LICENSE
In the meantime I've just bought a new OEM copy of XP Pro SP2 that I'll use exclusively on the VirtualBox "hardware".Activation helps verify that your copy of Windows is genuine and hasn’t been used on more devices than the Microsoft Software License Terms allow.
CHANGE MOTHERBOARD ACTIVATE WINDOWS 10 INSTALL
except that by MS licensing terms I'm sure they would rather like me to pay for a new license on each physical PC that hosts the VM even though I never actually install it there. The VM issue a whole can of worms! One of the selling points of VM is that you can carry your virtual PC around with you on a memory stick and run it on any physical PC. Much better performance, audio problem gone, so I decide to install the same XP CD in there. While researching ways to tweak the VM I discovered that other people make similar products, in particular VirtualBox is a good performer, totally free (in fact open source), and supported by Sun. VM ran ok, a little sluggish maybe, and audio seemed wrong (intermittent).
CHANGE MOTHERBOARD ACTIVATE WINDOWS 10 TRIAL
I knew that trial versions of XP were available but I wanted an instance that wouldn't expire, plus I had an unused XP Pro retail CD handy, so I installed that and stupidly activated it right away. My cousin lost the XP disc that came with the COMPCRAP computer so I purchased a OEM XP PRO from Newegg.Ī colleague was singing the praises of "Virtual Machines" to me the other day, so I downloaded Microsoft's own "Virtual PC 2007" product and gave it a try (at the time I was under the impression that MS and VMWare were the only players as that is what my colleague led me to believe). I had no problem in using the OEM XP PRO disc that was originally bought to replace COMPCRAP (COMPAQ) computer. I did not even have a live person from MS on the phone, everything was voice activated and when going online the questions of the mobo/cpu replacement are asked so you just answer accordingly. The activation is painless with a few minutes on the phone. I've heard horror stories about people having OEM copies of XP and Microshaft refusing to activate them (example: somebody's MB died and they had to replace it with a different model as the model that died was no longer made.) Even though everything else (including the CPU) was not changed, activation was refused and they were told to buy a new copy of XPee. It's an easy way to force people to a new OS, even if they don't need it or want it (or their computer can't run it.) I would not be surprised to see all activations denied by that date. I know support for XPee will last through 2010 and critical fixes (but no support) will still be supplied through (June?) 2014.
CHANGE MOTHERBOARD ACTIVATE WINDOWS 10 UPGRADE
I can't help but wonder that someday, M$ will simply refuse to activate XPee anymore and people will be told upgrade to Vista (or Windows 7). That activation crap was the reason I did, and is the reason I'm staying away from XPee. I originally bought my copy just a few months after XPee was introduced. I'm still using W2K and will continue to use it.
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