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I'm just going to buy a regular key.
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Imagine paying for PajeetOSI'm just going to buy a regular key.
OEM branded motherboards have it burned into the bios in a way that should automatically activate. As long as you stay on that laptop motherboard, the key should automatically work to activate windows.Unfortunately some things have changed, newer laptops tend to use keyless digital licenses and my ASUS laptop has that kind of license.
usually if you deactivate it first manually they shouldn't even noticeI was unable to move my OEM key from one desktop to another after it was replaced under warranty. I bought the OEM key myself, so Microsoft told me to eat a dick and buy another.
least by it off ebay or something for a few bucks.I'm just going to buy a regular key.
There's a 15-20% difference, and coincidentally those cards are worth about $15-$20. Don't overpay.Is there any noticeable difference between the rx 570 and the 580? I say this because I'm going to buy a graphics card and I just found a 570 at a very good price. (it is 8gb btw)
Agreed, that's why I just buy new houses instead of cleaning/vacuuming.Doing bullshit tricks to save a trivial amount of money on something I won't have to buy again for who knows how many years isn't worth it.
I find it cheaper to just replace the floor.Agreed, that's why I just buy new houses instead of cleaning/vacuuming.
Doesn't even need to renew, worked for my Win11 enterprise gamer box.Use an activator. Set it to auto-renew. If you’ve already installed Office, it will activate that, too.
An operating system license costs as much as a house, and software piracy and home maintenance are basically the same thing, so this is a good analogy.Agreed, that's why I just buy new houses instead of cleaning/vacuuming.
a responsible person does bothsoftware piracy and home maintenance are basically the same thing
a responsible person does both
So you chose to pay twelve minutes extra worth of time for a license key, rather than just using an activator which will be way less hassle in the future when Microsoft decides your license should have some extra restrictions or not come with ReFS support or whatever.I was already being inconvenienced by following a Cool Internet Trick to save like 8 minutes' worth of income. I fixed it the normal way in two clicks and about 20 minutes' worth of what I charge in consulting fees.
A very good analogy. Noone has ever built a property empire by paying jeets to make their computer worse.An operating system license costs as much as a house, and software piracy and home maintenance are basically the same thing, so this is a good analogy.
A very good analogy. Noone has ever built a property empire by paying jeets to make their computer worse.
So you chose to pay twelve minutes extra worth of time for a license key, rather than just using an activator which will be way less hassle in the future when Microsoft decides your license should have some extra restrictions or not come with ReFS support or whatever.
Buying a license is fine, whatever, but being proud about it is kind of weird.
So paying for an official license has already caused you trouble. And now you're getting a license for Home, which doesn't even let you run gpedit.msc?I take a great deal of pride in my Windows license. Just ordered a vanity plate for my car: "WIN11 OWNR."
Joking aside, like I said, I already did a cool internet trick people recommended here. Rather than buy a new home license, I bought an OEM license from some fly-by-night reseller for much cheaper. The result of this is I've gone back and forth with support from ASUS, Microsoft, and the reseller over a period of about a week to try to figure out if I can't get the thing transferred to my replacement machine, with the answer being, "no."
I've now wasted enough time dealing with the unforeseen fallout of cool tricks and am doing things the normal way that doesn't result in things like this happening. People have more cool tricks? They promise these ones won't cause problems down the line? Great, that's good for them, have fun with that. Last time I tried a cool trick and got burned was a pirated copy of Windows XP in 2003, so I'm not due to try again until 2044.
So paying for an official license has already caused you trouble. And now you're getting a license for Home, which doesn't even let you run gpedit.msc?
I would just use an activator rather than pay to make things needlessly difficult for myself, but you do you.
Your mistake was paying someone else to pirate for you rather than doing it yourself for free. Personally, I find the IoT/LTSC releases to be the only remaining usable versions of Windows. M$ doesn't sell those to normies, therefore I sail the seven seas. The massgrave scripts have a 100% success rate in my experience.Joking aside, like I said, I already did a cool internet trick people recommended here. Rather than buy a new home license, I bought an OEM license from some fly-by-night reseller for much cheaper. The result of this is I've gone back and forth with support from ASUS, Microsoft, and the reseller over a period of about a week to try to figure out if I can't get the thing transferred to my replacement machine, with the answer being, "no." This was a massive waste of time to save an amount of money roughly equal to taking the family to a burger place.