shail Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Slight troubles activating windows 10. Just built a gaming machine. SSD drive and a 2 terabyte drive for content. 16 gig ram blah blah blah. My other machine has windows 10 on it. The machine came with windows 10. My buddy brought over a copy on a USB drive to install windows 10. Works fine and all. Just can't activate it. Can't really customize the desktop. Can I use my other computers code to activate it. I signed in and all. Just not sure how to activate it if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo was astonished Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 If I am reading this correctly, you took a copy of Windows 10 from another computer and put it on this new one. That will not work. You need a license for each machine you run it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo was astonished Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/10751/windows-why-activate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Ways Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 If it came with Windows 10 why did you try to put a different Windows 10 on there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shail Posted November 10, 2016 Author Share Posted November 10, 2016 It didnt come with any OS. Had to put one on. I booted up from a DOS screen and then used a copy of windows 10 from a flash drive. It works. There are some features you can't use but it works fine. It updates also. I signed to my hotmail account that is linked to my windows copy. Thought that might work to activate it. It didn't. When I went back to my other computer that came with windows 10 it had changed the desktop background to the start up screen of the new computer. Very bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo was astonished Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 It didnt come with any OS. Had to put one on. I booted up from a DOS screen and then used a copy of windows 10 from a flash drive. It works. There are some features you can't use but it works fine. It updates also. I signed to my hotmail account that is linked to my windows copy. Thought that might work to activate it. It didn't. When I went back to my other computer that came with windows 10 it had changed the desktop background to the start up screen of the new computer. Very bizarre.Not bizarre. You are trying to use a copy of Windows 10 that has already been installed and activated on another computer, no? Or am I misunderstanding you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shail Posted November 11, 2016 Author Share Posted November 11, 2016 We downloaded it from the windows website. It's free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo was astonished Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 We downloaded it from the windows website. It's freeFree or not, you need one license per machine. You cannot put the same licensed software on multiple machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordgalaxy Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 We downloaded it from the windows website. It's freeFree or not, you need one license per machine. You cannot put the same licensed software on multiple machines.Maybe. I've used a licensed MS Office on 2 or maybe 3 machines over the past few years with no issues. When it asked for the activation code, or whatever it is MS uses, I type it in and it's worked just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo was astonished Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 (edited) We downloaded it from the windows website. It's freeFree or not, you need one license per machine. You cannot put the same licensed software on multiple machines.Maybe. I've used a licensed MS Office on 2 or maybe 3 machines over the past few years with no issues. When it asked for the activation code, or whatever it is MS uses, I type it in and it's worked just fine.Yes, Microsoft Office will allow up to 3 machines. They don't exactly advertise that, but you will be stopped on the 4th machine. Edited November 15, 2016 by Apollo was astonished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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