Basically, you invoke the program by pressing Windows-U, access its About window, then click the link that accesses Microsoft's web site. The tutorial goes on to show you how to access computer ...

Learn how Windows Activation works. It can be either the 25 alphabets key or the digital license tied to your Microsoft account or Enterprise Activation.

A glitch with Microsoft’s activation servers appears to be disrupting many users’s PCs, as Windows 10 erroneously reports their systems as either un-activated or downgraded from Windows 10 Pro ...

On Windows 11, you can check the activation status in three ways through the Settings app, Command Prompt (or PowerShell), and the Run command, and in this guide, I will teach you how.

Historically, hardware upgrades on Windows PCs that involved major changes (new motherboard and/or CPU, for example) required a phone call to Microsoft to reactivate the Windows license. Microsoft ...

Brian Freeman found a flaw in my article Reinstall Windows when you’ve lost your reinstall disc or partition. I told readers that “when it comes time to activate Windows, use the activation ...

Pirates have cracked Windows 7’s product activation just a week after the operating system made RTM (release to manufacturing) and a week before it’s slated to reach users, Microsoft confirmed ...