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Product Key Question.....
Hi, I successfully upgraded from Win 8.1 Pro to Win 10 Pro using the 'MediaCreator' setup tool (for some reason, I never received a notification about my reserved copy) and it activated itself without a problem. I plan to do a clean install at some stage, so I also downloaded a win 10 pro x64 .ISO using the same tool for this purpose. However, I'm wondering about the product key. Will I need it for a clean install? I downloaded a utility called 'produkey' which retrieves the installed key of the OS and it's showing a key which I found out to be a generic win 10 pro key. So, my installed key is generic, yet my OS is activated, which I find a little strange. Will I be able to do my clean install with this key and will it activate? I thought Microsoft would've given us a unique key for this purpose.