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anniversary edition

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10



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people often ask how to find their key, magical jellybean is often the answer, here's quick and neat way...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-tip-find-your-pcs-original-product-key/


some powershell

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A bit late to seeing the article you posted above
but I came to post about a related problem.

I bought a micro itx MSI Nightblade last year that had Windows 8 installed and I got the free upgrade to Windows 10. Last week I bought a GTX 1060 to replace the 960 but hadn't quite pressed the PCI release catch down properly. I managed to get the card out while also managing to rip the runner clean off the board and destroying the pins underneath. A new motherboard later and everything is working great but my Windows refuses to activate because the PC configuration has changed.

Now I have to get in touch with Microsoft support to try and get this fixed. I'll update if I have any joy.

Using XP i had to phone them once for my home pc after changing too msny bits and once for work, both i remember being relatively painless. Automated process where a long number is read to you in sections. Good luck i hope it goes well

Mobo often causes this issue :( oem PCs the key is invisble to user normally but on the bios.

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Windows 10 condemned by Which?

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Win10 adware removed from W7 finally:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/contentious-windows-10-upgrade-ads-removed-from-windows-7-8-1/


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I tend to get more informed opinion on 'tech' than from Which (not sure where it ranks compared the the silver surfer IT equivalent that is Computeractive) or the beeb.
I happen to think that W10 is a rather good OS with some nice improvements over W7.  Sure, there's certainly some settings that you probably should change from the default (not sure how different that is from a new Apple or Android phone) but really not sure it's worthy of some of the negativity.

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sj says...
"I happen to think that W10 is a rather good OS with some nice improvements over W7"
What would you say those were, out of interest?


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Quote:
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"What would you say those were, out of interest?"A few things here and there.
I do quite a bit of file copying/moving and like the simple things like transfer progress and speed etc (I know it was in Win 8 but steered well clear of that).  And the ability to pause a copy is really helpful sometimes.

Ste

Windows 10 now losing market share:
http://betanews.com/2016/10/01/wtf-windows-10-losing-share/

But got to take that with a pinch of salt, more likely to have stalled.

In other related news, my old laptop which dual boots to Win 10 and Win 7, thought I better launch Win 10 for the first time this year and let it update. Stuck on 34% downloading update for about 3 hours, even a reboot doesn't fix it.

Well done Microsoft, you still can't manage to handle a basic simple part of your OS that you should have solved 10 years ago.

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