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Ok, kan jag använda samma windows licens även om det ursprungligen var windows 8.1 som uppdaterades till 10?
Om du uppdaterade windows 8.1 under perioden microsoft hade gratis uppdatering så konverterades den automagiskt till en win 10 licens.. Så, ja det förmodar jag.
Kan finnas risk att behöva ringa ett MS-nummer som ger en ny kod eller något sånt, men det tror jag att jag bara gjorde när jag konverterade.
Rostig på licenser dock. Det känns som att jag har ett vagt minne av att man får formatera x antal gånger sen måste man ringa detdär numret igen.. Men det kanske var för något spel.
Någon annan har säkert ett mer utförligt svar!
EDIT:
https://www.howtogeek.com/226510/how-to-use-your-free-windows...
"The free Windows 10 license Microsoft is providing to upgraders works differently. Microsoft won’t issue you a Windows 10 product key. Instead, when you perform an upgrade from within Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.1, the upgrade process registers a unique ID associated with your PC’s hardware on Microsoft’s Windows activation servers.
In the future, whenever you install Windows 10 on that same PC, it will automatically report to Microsoft’s activation servers. Microsoft will confirm that the PC with that specific hardware configuration is allowed to use Windows 10, and it’ll automatically be activated.
This isn’t actually made clear in the installation process itself. To clean-install Windows 10 on a machine activated in this way, you have to continually skip all the product key prompts while installing it.
This automatic process only works if your PC has the same hardware it had when you upgraded to Windows 10.
You Can’t Move a Free Windows 10 License to Another PC
Those retail licenses are portable between different PCs, so you can take them with you from PC to PC. You might have purchased a Windows 7 license and built your own PC. Build a new PC a few years later and you can take that Windows 7 license with you as long as you remove it from the first machine. Rinse and repeat over and over–as long as you’d like to continue using Windows 7.
However, that free Windows 10 license you get as part of the upgrade process is tied to an individual PC. Even if you upgraded from a retail copy of Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, you won’t be given a retail copy of Windows 10. You just can’t move that free Windows 10 license to another PC. Now that the free Windows 10 upgrade offer is over, you’ll have to buy a new copy of Windows 10 if you want to move it to an entirely different PC.
This may feel a bit inconvenient. But, on the other hand, that Windows 10 license was just a free bonus in the first place. Retail licenses of Windows 10 you purchase can be moved between PCs in the same way."
Huh! Verkar inte som det. Det sög ju.
Men då borde ju en Windows 10 reset eller vad de kallar deras reinstall-funktion rimligtvis inte vara någon fara. Men har ingen personlig erfarenhet och således sker det på egen risk.
Kinguin eller vars det var säljer ju annars retail keys för 200 pix eller något sånt, iirc.
