Changing hardware and licensing questions...


  1. rbarr110
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    Changing hardware and licensing questions...


    So my son has an older PC that is running Win 10 and I am running a newer PC also on Win 10. I intend on upgrading most of my machine (CPU, motherboard, and ram). I want to give him my old hardware, but am curious on how a clean install on both our machines will go based on the significant change in hardware.

    Any ideas on how MS will see these hardware changes and what hoops I may have to go through to get Win 10 reactivated on both machines?

    Thanks
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  3. NavyLCDR
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    See here:
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