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[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments
Sheepocalypse:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1715077/operating-system-upgrading-motherboard.html
I have to reactivate or reinstall an OS when swapping mobos. Unfortunately I don't know the activation key/whatever it is to get it working
shitlord:
oh yeah thats true it does forget up windows keys :/
Mule:
There are 2 different kinds of windows keys. OEM keys; which are one time use and on activation get tied to a motherboard and cant be activated to a different motherboard*; and Fully Licensed keys, Fully licensed keys can be used any one computer at a time.
*This is the way it is supposed to be, but if you call the support hotline the indian guy behind the other line has no problem re-activating your key for you, for free aswell.
Tokthree:
--- Quote from: Mule on October 16, 2015, 07:42:08 PM ---There are 2 different kinds of windows keys. OEM keys; which are one time use and on activation get tied to a motherboard and cant be activated to a different motherboard*; and Fully Licensed keys, Fully licensed keys can be used any one computer at a time.
*This is the way it is supposed to be, but if you call the support hotline the indian guy behind the other line has no problem re-activating your key for you, for free aswell.
--- End quote ---
They're not called OEM's now, they changed the license to a System Builder's license. As far as I know it should automatically re-activate the key once you try to install it on another motherboard and if it doesn't then Microsoft is fine with doing it for you. They don't do full retail licenses anymore AFAIK
Becquerel:
So today I got around to trying to remove and reinstall Cygwin
About 4 hours ago I ran the command to delete the CW directory
4 hours later, its still running in Cmd, so I decided to take a look in the folders properties to see how large it was at the moment
it was 27 31 loving gigabytes