New Motherboard and Reactivation

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  1. Superfly
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    Yup a retail key could have been used directly with the new mobo - why MS support needed all that fluff, IDK - not slick at all, unnecessarily checking invoices and stuff, then using slmgr commands when "change product key" on the activation screen would have sufficed
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  3. Raner
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       New #32

    Sorry, I Accidentally Posted on this Thread by mistake...
    Last edited by Raner; 01 Jul 2017 at 07:35.
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