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win10pro keeps going unauthorised
This has happened 3 times now. I reload from a previous backup and all is fine. Maybe a month after the "activate windows" text comes up bottom right of desktop and when I check the activation it says windows reported a hardware change. There was a hardware change (mobo)by DELL but then new windows was installed by their engineer. So for this PC now effectively there has NOT been a hardware change.
I am sich of having to reload a previous backup and lose all my latest config!
Dell blames microsoft and microsoft blames dell. MS say that the original license is for windows 8 pro and therefore not 10 pro. But dell say that is normal (that the very first iteration of their engineers install could be from a win8 pro in the first instance.and they haven't allowed win 8 on their PCs for years.
Does anyone have any ideas how to deal with this?
Does it matter anyway? will I still get full functionality and updates?
or Do I tell them both to do one and change all my effing PCs to PIRATE versions and never buy legal again????? I actually would never do this but the way I feel at the moment I just want to STICK IT TO THE MAN if you get my drift!
any help (other than go pirate!) will be muchly appreciated - thanks
btw I ran the power shell script and the only thing that jumps out is at the beginning with licensing status as "SL-GEN-STATE-INVALID-LICENSE. which is what I see of course.
ps last time I spoke to MS they said it would not happen again because now the 10pro digital license is tied to my Microsoft account. With that turns out to be BS! even when logged in the only useful option is to buy a new license from the MSstore!
and what's to say I don't do that and it happens again anyway?