A friend of mine smashed his all-in-on PC with Windows 10 Home and asked me to make a backup of his data and later restore the data onto his new PC. I have basically two questions about this:

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Why would I risk forfeiting the activation on my new PC if I give away the old PC?

I activated Windows 10 on the new PC with my original Windows 8 key, and that was not the key that I used on the...

The computer came and I installed right away Windows 10 Pro, as suggested without putting in any key at first.

It did not activate automatically, and neither the generic key ("invalid") nor my...

Awesome. I will try that. Thank you.

Because I bought a used Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p for $70 from a refurbisher with around 10,000 positive reviews on eBay. It has a Core i5-2400 CPU and 8 GB RAM and will be good enough for me. It has a...

Never had heard about ShowKeyFinder before. I used it now to check my original Windows 8 Pro key and also the Windows 10 Pro key (which I got from Microsoft support [no need to use quotation marks...

Correct. My original version was Windows 8 Pro, later updated to Windows 8.1 Pro, then upgraded to Windows 10 Pro.

I'm using all of that and more (namely Splashtop SOS). Right now I'm connected to the PC from my Mac with Microsoft Remote Desktop.

OK. FRST64 created two files which are attached here.

I did notice the entry "License Activation (slui.exe) failed with the following error code: ..." but do not understand what this actually...

Somewhere from the microsoft.com website. All of this happened right after Windows 10 came out, and according to my research at that time many people had problems getting their Windows 10 upgrade...

OK, here is my timeline:

1) I bought Windows 8 from Microsoft (still have the receipt). I got, of course, a product key for it.
2) I installed and activated Windows 8, upgraded at one point to...

Thanks. Yes, I do still have the Windows 8 key and will check on that later.

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... attached a screen shot from my WhoIs query.

Yes, I blurred some numbers because I do not understand what they mean and how "private" they are. However, I swear that I bought Windows 8 (for money, from Microsoft directly), and when I could not...

The result is a picture (the text cannot be copied). It is here attached with partially blurred numbers.

I definitely got the product key over the phone from Microsoft directly. With that product...

I have a PC with Windows 10 Pro. I activated this Windows with a product key that I got over the phone from Microsoft because it was not possible to activate Windows 10 after upgrading from Windows...

I just set up a new laptop with Windows 10 and an activated subscription to Office 365 Home with two users and was about to also install Office 365 on a desktop with Windows 8.1 that belongs to the...

I am using Windows on a Mac with a virtual PC (that is what the Parallels Desktop software does - providing me with a virtual PC on which I can install i. e. Windows). The video adapter for this PC...

What do you mean by "hotkey for graphics options"?

If you mean a shortcut on the desktop to c:\windows\System32\desk.cpl - no, that does not really work better than going to the display settings...

Hello Forum,

I am using Windows 10 from within Parallels Desktop on a Mac which means that my screen resolution often changes to the strangest numbers when I move or change the window in which I...

I changed now back to the default sound scheme, restarted the computer, opened Mail, and sent myself another mail (from a different computer).

Still no sound or banner for incoming mails. Yes,...

Wow. Which normal Windows user might know that?

Let apps run in the background is (and was) on for Calendar.

I added a sound to Desktop Mail Notification (I had already one for New Mail...

... in other words: it is simply not possible to change the icon just for one individual file (file meaning file, not shortcut to a file) - correct?

I checked now in the Mail options (for all accounts) also Show a notification banner - and still get neither a sound nor a banner, regardless of having Mail in the foreground or background or off.
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