Hi, I tried to postpone previously migrating for free my laptop from W10 to W11, it was my choice but now once I finally decided to do it, I'm being greeted with the message below without the option to install a previous W11 version: Coming soon: Windows 11, version 22H2 Windows 11, version 22H2 is on its way to your device. There’s nothing that requires your attention at the moment. Once the update is ready for your device, you’ll see it available on this page. Any thoughts about a potential workaround or I just need to wait?
Thanks for this informative video, Brian! Do you have a video on how to disable the key and move it to another machine or is that something easily found on the web?
That key displayed is the "default key" and mine has that same number. Mine is activated with a "digital license" and I hate those because if anything on your computer decides to run afoul, then the system deactivates, as I'm experiencing now. I like the older keys that you just punch in and it's good.
It's all about money, they force you to buy windows. I also have digital licence - you have to assign windows to yours Microsoft account - so you can even make clean install. I have just replaced my ssd.
On my Win11 Home computer when I select "Retrieve Key" Win11 keeps saying I need administrative rights to access the config folder in C:\Windows\System32. When I give access control in the next pop up it still wont open. It just keeps asking over and over...
Great little program, quick & easy! I've DL'd and played around with all the handy little comp-candy apps and progs you've recommended and have not been disappointed yet. 👍 Would you have any tips on how to get back the old RU-vid page layout, as they've recently just updated it to a horrible 'new' version?
That's weird. It says I have Win 11 home when I know I have Pro installed, I downloaded it from Microsoft and installed it myself. I also have an installed key showing as well as an OEM one. The OEM Edition is Win 8.1 RTM.... What's going on with my PC? Any idea? Peace
0:28 I learnt how wrong that is. I forgot to save the OEM key on my new computer, so when I did a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro N, I couldn't activate it, and now I'm stuck in a boot loop of sorts. It can't allow me to register later, and it's stuck.
Amazing tutorial 10/10. Really liked the Microsoft Store app because it means it's more likely secure. If I to come up with association to Windows OS, it would be freedom and frustration, while Mac Os is smooth elegance and many limitations.
I actually had to do a bit of social engineering/lying when i built my PC. I had a laptop with windows 10 installed on it but when i built my pc I didn't want to spend $100 on another Windows 10 install, so I used the windows 10 key from my laptop to activate windows on my pc, which at first didn't work but I just called microsoft and told them I was reinstalling windows 10 because my hard drive crashed and they went ahead and activated it. So now i'm using the same activation key on two different computers, lol, I have no idea how it's working on both computers but it is.
can you show us how to deactivate a key of a dead computer and then use that key on a new cumputer? is that even possible? do we need to deactivate the key? or we just enter it on the new computer and that it?
You would want to know your key on an OEM license so you can reinstall on the same PC. Maybe you bought a new one and it is loaded with bloatware. You would reinstall a new copy of Windows that doesn't have all the resource hogging bloatware.
i have win 10 key and i upload it to win 11 and now i cant find the key anywhere i tried this and it showed me "MAK Key is not available" then i tired another method which uses the CMD and typed some code and ltrly outputed a blank line
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Thank you so much for this very informative video. The command prompt option didn't work for me. You video was straight to the point, no beating around the bush. You got a sub and you deserve it! Having said this, I have a question: I see that you, just like me, upgraded to Windows 11 from Windows 10, hence the Windows 10 key. After deactivating this key on my current PC, on my New PC, can I just install Windows 11 pro and use this key, or do I need to first install Windows 10 and then upgrade? Of course on my current PC, after the upgrade from Windows 10 pro, I uninstalled and did a clean Windows 11 Pro install, so I'm hoping to just install Windows 11 on my new build directly. Thanks once again.
Hi Brian. Could you please let everyone know that I installed PC Manager Beta on 3 Windows 10 laptops & I found that it screwed up Windows security on all 3? But it took about a day for the problem to show up it was saying at every startup something like you are using another anti-virus & real-time protection was turned off & greyed out for about 10 minutes at every startup. After uninstalling PC Manager Windows security was back to normal. In case someone else gets the same problem.👍
"If you have OEM key you won't really need to know what that key is"??? One of most stupid sentence I ever heard in this topic! So if your storage drive is broken or you just want to change a bigger one, you will buy a new windows? Congratulations!
That's the "default key" that comes with win11 systems that have been activated via a "digital license". Down with M$ with this "digital license" BS! Keys work; licenses have a way of borking themselves at the worst time.
