submitted 11 months ago by ninakuup21@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello people I have recently changed my CPU, Motherboard and RAMs so I was planning on reinstalling windows on my PC. Last time I installed Windows was probably or so 10 years ago and I can't remember for the life of me how I activated it.

Any recommendations on activating the new install? Or is it too much trouble nowadays and should I just buy a key?

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[-] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 116 points 11 months ago

Check out https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

[-] Equinox@lemmy.one 18 points 11 months ago

This is the way

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

This is the correct answer!

[-] ninakuup21@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Thanks! I'll check it out tonight

[-] glitchinthematrix@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Definitely this is the way

[-] dax@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

It's pretty ironic that this is hosted on a Microsoft owned service. I hope they have a mirror available somewhere

[-] ninakuup21@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Sorry for the double reply but do you know if this works for every version of Windows 10 or just specific ones?

[-] safesyrup@feddit.ch 9 points 11 months ago

should work on every version. Afaik the activation sequence is the same for all windows 10 versions so i can't see why it wouldn't work on some versions

[-] archy@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Worked on 11, safe to assume works on all 10's

[-] mikezila@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

I've used it on probably 10+ windows systems that I've had to refresh/set up for various needs and people. I've never had it fail on any flavor of 10/11.