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It looks like it's an activator for Windows and Office, perhaps safe mode would allow you to delete the folder.

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It looks like it's an activator for Windows and Office, perhaps safe mode would allow you to delete the folder.

Why is it on my PC? I didn't put it there. Could it have been transferred from my old OS when I upgraded to 10? When I did some things I shouldn't mention?

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Why is it on my PC? I didn't put it there. Could it have been transferred from my old OS when I upgraded to 10? When I did some things I shouldn't mention?

If you did an upgrade that is very likely yes, if you did a clean install probably not.

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Why is it on my PC? I didn't put it there. Could it have been transferred from my old OS when I upgraded to 10? When I did some things I shouldn't mention?

Yeah probably.

Your Windows 10 should be activated anyways because free if you try to clean install.

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If you did an upgrade that is very likely yes, if you did a clean install probably not.

I did upgrade, long time back when Win10 was still in beta. Wasn't a clean install, but I'm still using the same one without problems, except for this stupid ass program, and now F8 won't let me boot into safe mode for some reason.

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I did upgrade, long time back when Win10 was still in beta. Wasn't a clean install, but I'm still using the same one without problems, except for this stupid ass program, and now F8 won't let me boot into safe mode for some reason.

Yeah you definitely had it carry over into your new install then, if it's possible I'd just use the recovery features to reset your system and back-up files and such first. Who knows what else might be hiding in the registry and other places.

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I did upgrade, long time back when Win10 was still in beta. Wasn't a clean install, but I'm still using the same one without problems, except for this stupid ass program, and now F8 won't let me boot into safe mode for some reason.

I'd clean install, it might be hijacked. 

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If you can't delete it within Windows. Use a Linux live disk. (basically a linux install disk, which lets you "try" linux before actually installing it, most, if not all distro, let you do that, like Mint or Ubuntu)

This will let you delete protected files in windows.

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If you can't delete it within Windows. Use a Linux live disk. (basically a linux install disk, which lets you "try" linux before actually installing it, most, if not all distro, let you do that, like Mint or Ubuntu)

This will let you delete protected files in windows.

i agree it will work, but this is most likely a symptom of a larger problem. 

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it's an activator for windows and office, it would be there from when you upgraded since you said you did that. it is often used by pirates but that isn't it's intended purpose and it is 100% clean. just be careful if you got it from a pirate site because some naughty people inject malware into the contents before uploading it there.

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I didn't pirate anything, 

Kinda exactly why I think you may have, but that isn't really relevant here TBH. So what if you did that is your own choice, besides 10 is free to most people, so it doesn't much matter. 

 

it's an activator for windows and office, it would be there from when you upgraded since you said you did that. it is often used by pirates but that isn't it's intended purpose and it is 100% clean. just be careful if you got it from a pirate site because some naughty people inject malware into the contents before uploading it there.

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Are you having further problems since you removed it?

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I pirated Win 8.1, but have a full Win 7 license, the switch from 7 to 10 was fine, 8.1 to 10 included KMSPico.

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Kinda exactly why I think you may have, but that isn't really relevant here TBH. So what if you did that is your own choice, besides 10 is free to most people, so it doesn't much matter. 

 

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Are you having further problems since you removed it?

So far so good. It would randomly started taking up 40-50% CPU load, especially while I was playing BF4. Tanked my FPS by almost half. It could have been the KMSPico as I've seen it do that before, or it could've been my PSU as it might've heat up and stopped delivering 400W continuous, causing the processor to slow down. The 290 does draw 250W after all (and yes, I am upgrading the PSU soon).

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I pirated Win 8.1, but have a full Win 7 license, the switch from 7 to 10 was fine, 8.1 to 10 included KMSPico.

Yep, I think it came from Windows 8.1 Pro when I had that. And uh, I should've mentioned this, but I might have or might not have gotten Microsoft Office a certain way (I needed it for school, okay?).

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Yep, I think it came from Windows 8.1 Pro when I had that. And uh, I should've mentioned this, but I might have or might not have gotten Microsoft Office a certain way (I needed it for school, okay?).

 

OpenOffice? But yeah, i hate how schools just require expensive software like that and not give you an option to install it via the school's educational license.

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OpenOffice? But yeah, i hate how schools just require expensive software like that and not give you an option to install it via the school's educational license.

Well my high school offers Office 365, but I needed Publisher. But at least I can get $2000 pieces of software like AutoCAD for free.

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 but I might have or might not have gotten Microsoft Office a certain way (I needed it for school, okay?).

We're here to help not to judge. :) 

 

Glad its working better for you!

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