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  • spud17
    spud17 Posts: 4,432 Forumite
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    As you wish spud17.

    Don't be like that Richie. :)

    Things have changed with Win 10, have a look at,

    http://www.howtogeek.com/226510/how-to-use-your-free-windows-10-license-after-changing-your-pc%E2%80%99s-hardware/
    Move along, nothing to see.
  • Doc_N
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    2010 wrote: »
    Is that the 64 bit and if so does it happen on the 32 bit?

    I found this use to happen if there was more than one tab open.

    If you don`t use chrome what do you use?

    Happens with both. Originally using 32 bit, I discovered, so changed to the correct 64 bit, but it crashes just as often.

    Always at least 3 tabs open (for different Gmail accounts) but that's no problem with Firefox or Maxthon. Or Opera for that matter. Maybe I should try Microsoft Edge - but having avoided IE for so long it would go against the grain!
  • 2010
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    Doc_N wrote: »
    Happens with both. Originally using 32 bit, I discovered, so changed to the correct 64 bit, but it crashes just as often.

    Try this and let me know how you get on.


    Go to settings, go to system, go to Tablet Mode, turn off,

    then next one down set "go to the Desktop" when you sign in,

    then next one down set to "always ask me before switching"
  • spud17 wrote: »

    I didn't mean to come over short M8, I was just going out and not due back till 8pm so I wrote a quick fairy-nuff. A longer response would have been I've no idea and I suspect you and 99% of the rest of the world has no idea either. There's what we know and what we suppose, they've understandably kept the activation landscape quiet. I'm on Pro and a retail key I'm supposing I'm now not a person but their product so I have no serial number, name & address but a hardware# registration linked to my product key which in turn as we know is stored online only, and has been for about 10 years as a uniqueID already.

    What I'm not sure of is which product key v8 or the v10 upgrade key mentioned earlier. Then it gets really complicated about which keys get what for example clean installs are restricted :
    howupgrade.png
    I'm not sure to what extent changing hardware will flag you as a cheat for example a MOBO change I imagine most certainly will, but I'm not convinced that

    - memory and CPU which are dependant on each other will
    - a HDD or HDD upgrade to SSD will
    - a video card swap will

    So you see there are many imponderables and until well measured feedback comes in we are all left guessing. If I still had the shops and tons of kit I'd write myself say 10 scenario's and plough through them but I don't, so I won't be the one that does it. I do know that I can change license key at any time at will because I've just looked after my updates were installed and there's a box for that. Best of luck lad.
    Disclaimer : Everything I write on this forum is my opinion. I try to be an even-handed poster and accept that you at times may not agree with these opinions or how I choose to express them, this is not my problem. The Disabled : If years cannot be added to their lives, at least life can be added to their years - Alf Morris - ℜ
  • Jivesinger
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    edited 10 September 2015 at 12:43AM
    What I'm not sure of is which product key v8 or the v10 upgrade key mentioned earlier. Then it gets really complicated about which keys get what for example clean installs are restricted :
    howupgrade.png
    All that table means is that to upgrade from, for example, Windows 8 (not 8.1) you use an ISO and can't do it with the Windows Update app that pops up icons in the Taskbar.

    But you still must do an Upgrade install from that ISO to get your Windows 10 Activation, and in all cases I expect you'll get the same generic Windows 10 Product Key as everyone else with that edition.

    Then, however you got to Windows 10 Activated status, you can clean-install any one of 'em by booting the ISO.

    There is nothing in that table that relates to clean installs.

    The only time you would/should type in a Windows 10 Product Key is if you handed over actual money for one.
  • wymondham
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    spud17 wrote: »
    From my reading, this is what registers/activates your machine with Microsoft.
    What you do after, up to a point, is irrelevant because you're already activated on MS servers with your machine's fingerprint.

    exactly correct.
  • Doc_N
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    2010 wrote: »
    Try this and let me know how you get on.


    Go to settings, go to system, go to Tablet Mode, turn off,

    then next one down set "go to the Desktop" when you sign in,

    then next one down set to "always ask me before switching"

    Thanks - now trialling - I'll feed back. :)
  • Jivesinger wrote: »
    All that table means is that to upgrade from, for example, Windows 8 (not 8.1) you use an ISO and can't do it with the Windows Update app that pops up icons in the Taskbar.

    But you still must do an Upgrade install from that ISO to get your Windows 10 Activation, and in all cases I expect you'll get the same generic Windows 10 Product Key as everyone else with that edition.

    Then, however you got to Windows 10 Activated status, you can clean-install any one of 'em by booting the ISO.

    There is nothing in that table that relates to clean installs.

    The only time you would/should type in a Windows 10 Product Key is if you handed over actual money for one.

    True Jivesinger, I should have said (1) upgrades & (2) clean installation but the requirement for a re-activation under "life of the device" rules are changing as we speak and no not all new rules will ever be made public so it will be the usual suck it and see [discovery] over the 26 week bedding in period.
    Disclaimer : Everything I write on this forum is my opinion. I try to be an even-handed poster and accept that you at times may not agree with these opinions or how I choose to express them, this is not my problem. The Disabled : If years cannot be added to their lives, at least life can be added to their years - Alf Morris - ℜ
  • GT60
    GT60 Posts: 2,363 Forumite
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    """Originally Posted by spud17 viewpost.gif
    Don't be like that Richie. :)

    Things have changed with Win 10, have a look at,

    http://www.howtogeek.com/226510/how-to-use-your-free-windows-10-license-after-changing-your-pc’s-hardware/ """

    Off the subject a bit I think
    I have upgraded to 10 and was thinking of upgrading my ram
    would this affect the OS like it says above?


    Thank you
    Spending my time reading how to fix PC's,instead of looking at Facebook.
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    GT60 wrote: »
    """Originally Posted by spud17 viewpost.gif
    Don't be like that Richie. :)

    Things have changed with Win 10, have a look at,

    http://www.howtogeek.com/226510/how-to-use-your-free-windows-10-license-after-changing-your-pc’s-hardware/ """

    Off the subject a bit I think
    I have upgraded to 10 and was thinking of upgrading my ram
    would this affect the OS like it says above?


    Thank you

    Highly unlikely
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