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WINDOWS 10 ACTIVATION HELP!!

Hoads2047
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OK so i was playing around in windows 10 and i managed to somehow delete my product key and now my laptop is saying that i need to activate windows.

I upgraded to windows 10 from 8.1 and i am running on an alienware 14 (2014 version) is there a way to get my key back or not??

Thanks

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1 minute ago, Hoads2047 said:

OK so i was playing around in windows 10 and i managed to somehow delete my product key and now my laptop is saying that i need to activate windows.

I upgraded to windows 10 from 8.1 and i am running on an alienware 14 (2014 version) is there a way to get my key back or not??

Thanks

Check the back of the laptop for key

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Windows 10 ties itself to the motherboard bios and/or microsoft's activation servers. It is highly unlikely you deleted it through windows.

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Or just enter the windows 8.1 key that came with the laptop. 

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18 minutes ago, Hoads2047 said:

OK so i was playing around in windows 10 and i managed to somehow delete my product key and now my laptop is saying that i need to activate windows.

I upgraded to windows 10 from 8.1 and i am running on an alienware 14 (2014 version) is there a way to get my key back or not??

Thanks

If its currently built as Win10, and logon is a Microsoft Logon (not a local account) then you can go to 'manage account' which links to website, and will tell you the real status of your key (called digital license last time i looked).

 

go to settings->accounts->manage my Microsoft account.

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On 4/16/2017 at 1:18 PM, Anghammarad said:

Or just enter the windows 8.1 key that came with the laptop. 

I can't seem to find it anywhere on the documentation for the laptop.

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