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kirby007 on 26 June 2021
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JEMC said:
kirby007 said:

it basicly activates the windows 11 license on your account and not on the hardware.

what already happens with windows 10 afaik

EDIT: well had a quick check i activated it personally, but it isn't required

I think it does both things, to be honest.

When I build my father's PC, I activated the copy of Windows during the installation with a MSoft account. Then, we found out that one of t he components was faulty and had to ask replacements for them (the faulty bit turned out to be the RAM). When I installed Windows again, I got the message that the licence was already in use in another system. Long story short, a call to MSoft did nothing and I had to buy another windows license.

So yeah, it doesn't matter if it's a MSoft account or a local account, if you get new hardware, you'll need a new license.

At least I learned the lesson, skip the activation (which you can) until all is done and I know the system works fine.

And here i assumed using the account you could remove/transfer the license... good to know



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