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The easiest and most legal way of doing this involves activating your copy of Windows from within Settings, but you can use a couple of different temporary work-arounds if need be. Log in Social login does not work in incognito and private browsers. Please log in with your username or email to continue. No account yet? Create an account. Edit this Article.
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In order to activate your copy of Windows, you'll need to be connected to the Internet so that Microsoft can validate your key. Click the Activation tab. You'll find it on the left side of the window. Click Change product key. It's a link in the middle of the Activation page. Doing so opens a new window. Enter your Windows 10 product key. Type the activation key that came with your copy of Windows 10 into the text box.
You can usually find the product key on the CD box if you bought a hard copy, or in a confirmation email from Microsoft if you bought a Windows 10 product key online. If you bought a key for Windows 7, 8, or 8. Click Next. It's in the lower-right corner of the window. This will prompt Microsoft to attempt to verify your copy of Windows. Follow any on-screen instructions.
If your copy of Windows is legitimate, you should receive a notification that it has been accepted, though you may need to enter additional information if prompted. Method 2. Make sure that you're on an administrator account. You'll need to be on an account that has administrator privileges in order to make changes to your computer's registry.
Type in regedit. This will search your computer for the Registry Editor command. Click regedit. It's a teal collection of blocks at the top of the Start window. Click Yes when prompted. Doing so will open the Registry Editor window. Go to the "Activation" key. Right-click Manual. It's a blue-and-white icon on the right side of the window. A drop-down menu will appear. If your mouse doesn't have a right-click button, click the right side of the mouse, or use two fingers to click the mouse.
If your computer uses a trackpad instead of a mouse, use two fingers to tap the trackpad or press the bottom-right side of the trackpad. Click Modify. It's at the top of the drop-down menu. A window will appear. Change the value data. I've received several detailed reports from readers about their experiences with WGA that involves purchases of full retail copies of Windows XP from reputable dealers like Fry's, Staples, and BestBuy.
The worst part of this is that there is no external review of WGA Validation's determinations. And while it's true that many people may have no idea that their copy of Windows isn't "genunine," there's no way that WGA Validation could be perfect in its determinations.
One story I've heard from several readers is that they bought a retail "upgrade" installation of Windows XP Pro from a reputable source to upgrade a PC that came with Windows XP Home, and got into trouble after installing it. There's no way that all these copies of Windows XP Pro are counterfeit. And these people have paid the normal price for the software. It should not be up to customers to determine whether software is valid at retail.
Microsoft should be able to go after counterfeiters on its own, without getting retail buyers involved. Despite the possibility of scary messaging, WGA Notifications doesn't have much of an enforecment bite at present. But might that change in the future? Microsoft has said it won't "turn off" illegitimate copies of Windows.
But could the software giant be interpreting that literally? The more likely preventive measure probably isn't turning off the computer. It's not hard to imagine that WGA might direct its predecessor, Windows Product Activation WPA , to lock you out of your computer until such time that you can present a valid product key. When WPA kicks in, the computer boots to a login screen that doesn't let you use the computer until a valid activation code is entered. In Vista, this WPA screen links to an option that lets you buy a new copy of Windows, even extending use of Internet Explorer for that purpose, though you can't actually login to Windows prior to successful activation.
Microsoft has more than once alluded to the fact that it's reserving the right to require the installation of WGA Notifications on all computers, possibly sometime early this fall. It's simply not known yet how Vista's version of WGA will behave.
At this writing, it is possible to both remove WGA Notifications and also to prevent it from attempting to reinstall after you have removed it. There are many sites on the Internet that purport to help you remove WGA Notifications from your system. Microsoft has recently changed some things about this software, and many of those instructions could be out of date. I have yet to see a definitive work on this subject, and I don't consider this one to be either.
Since WGA is still in beta, and Microsoft is still developing it, I suspect that the best set of instructions is yet to come. A large portion of my instructions are based on Microsoft's How to disable or uninstall the pilot version of Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications KnowledgeBase article, which showed a July 12, , revision date at the time that I prepared this article. It should be noted that many of the simplistic methods of halting WGA Notifications, such as blocking it with your firewall or renaming the WgaLogon.
They are effective right now. If Microsoft renames its files, those protections would break. It's the part that "phones home. The part of WGA that concerns me most is the virtual certainty that WGA Validation will falsely identify even a small percentage of Windows installations as being "counterfeit" when in fact they are not. Important: These instructions require editing the registry.
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