What is the most accurate way to recovering a Win 10 1909 post-activation key? With Dell PCs I understand that this information is buried in the bios or registry and it may differ from what is shown on a system's COA.
Enlightenment and/or a pointer to an appropriate tutorial, guidance, and/or suggestions will be welcomed. Thanks in advance.
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Why would you need to know the product key stored in UEFI firmware? Other than to satisfy insatiable curiosity?
Thanx to all for good suggestions. My interest stemmed from the worry that the PC at issue might need major repairs (HD, motherboard) at some point and, as I activated Win 10 with a Win 7 key, I felt it would be useful to have the stored information in hand in such a case.
Easier to transfer (retail) licenses if they are linked to a MS account. And I've seen it said that even when the orginal license was OEM it has been transferable after a hardware change, though that shouldn't really be so - and I can't vouch for that.
Always a good idea to keep records anyway.
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