Windows product keys are almost (but not quite) a thing of the past. With Windows 10, Microsoft has rewritten the rules for how it performs product activation on retail upgrades of Windows, including ...

A copy of Windows is genuine only if it has been activated using a valid key. When you buy Windows Keys from Microsoft websites or get them from the OEMs, you can be sure that they are genuine. But ...

Product keys for Windows 8 computers aren't printed on a sticker. They're encrypted in the BIOS. How might that affect you? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Those purchasing Windows 8 PCs are noticing that the small "Certificate of Authenticity" that is normally home to the product key is missing, and instead a "Genuine Microsoft" label has replaced it.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is able to generate free product keys for a Windows operating system (OS), first shared by Gizmodo. The OS in question is Windows 95, which, as the name suggests, was released in 1995 ...

At times you may want to recover your Windows and Office product license keys along with keys of other software or games installed on your Windows computer. While you can always find your Windows ...

Anyone want to help me win an argument…or maybe make me look stupid? I'm in an ongoing argument elsewhere about the circumstances under which Windows product keys can be stored in the BIOS of a system ...

Have you ever had your computer crash beyond repair? When this happens, the natural response is to purchase a new one, but what happens to your important software ...

For a few years I've had a Microsoft Action Pack. I used the software mainly for my PC side-business and computer website (testing, home office, etc.). <BR><BR>However, I've since sold the website and ...

Call it the legacy of Microsoft’s Vista operating system. PC users upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 have run into a variety of hair pulling problems since last Thursday when Windows 7 ...