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Originally Posted by Quoth
I think there are more than one oddity. I've had licencing fail (on legitimate installs/licenses) after updates. Also upgrading any part can cause that now.
Then there are licencing fails on re-installs after HDD fail (Office & Windows).
Also the MS licencing hotline is now automated and you need DTMF tones to type in codes and the returned new keys are spoken too quick and funny accent by the robot. So sometimes up to 4 calls / attempts. Crazy that they can't do it by email or SMS either.
Since XP the MS licencing for Office, Windows etc has gone as bad as a Adobe. Next step a hardware dongle and monthly subscription?
I've had problems with MS Office licences too. So I've given up on any fresh installs or upgrades of anything MS. Sometimes just the updates on Win10 make computer unusable. Once I had to edit a partition to get an undate to complete.
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I have two valid Windows 10 Home licenses sitting on two hard drives. You can get the licenses from those drives without them having to be the active OS. One is from a laptop that died and the other is from my old crappy desktop that died. The desktop was replaced with a mini-PC running Windows 11 Pro. The laptop was replaced with the HP laptop I'm using now.