![]() So now I had 2 Windows 10 machines activated with the same key. She saved the key in case I needed it in the future on the desktop but by then I was curious where this key came from so I grabbed the retail box in my laptop bag and there it was. The CSR ended up using Belarc to pull the old license number which showed as a Win 8.1 Pro and did change product key and used that to reactivate. I tried to activate the way MS said it should work and kept getting the "activation servers down or unavailable" message so I opened a chat with MS. and as expected after boot it came up needing reactivation. Fast forward to last weekend I upgraded this machine with a new motherboard, processor etc. I had a retail copy of Windows 8 floating around and forgot that was the original OS install on this machine so right before MS ended the free upgrades I used it to rebuild an older Dell Studio 17 XPS so that I could upgrade to Windows 10 Pro instead of upgrading the Win 7 Home Premium that came with the laptop. My primary workstation was upgraded from Win 8.1 to Windows 10.
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