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Question about "re-activating" windows

Firearm2112
By Firearm2112
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So a while back I didn't have enough money for Windows, so I... got on a pirate ship... and uh yea

 

Anyways, since Windows 8.1 keys are so cheap on G2A, I was wondering if I could just buy one and reactivate Windows with it, or would I have to completely reinstall Windows?

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So a while back I didn't have enough money for Windows, so I... got on a pirate ship... and uh yea

 

Anyways, since Windows 8.1 keys are so cheap on G2A, I was wondering if I could just buy one and reactivate Windows with it, or would I have to completely reinstall Windows?

It depends on how they modified Windows, but you might be better off just reinstalling Windows anyways.

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You are better with complete reinstall. You can select it to save your personal files so the process is pretty easy. Or you can try deactivate current copy and reactivate it.

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