I have bought a new computer with Windows 7 Pro pre-installed on it. As I need to use Linux I have used this tool Advanced token manager to backup my product key. Then I have replaced the OS with Linux so I can then install my Windows 7 back again [...] read more
All our servers are setup under a volume license agreement so they shouldn't prompt for activation. However some of them constantly ask for reactivation. These are all VMs running under VMware vSphere. The machine that prompted for activation today said that the hardware had changed since it was activated, when [...] read more
I have a Dell Latitude E6520 laptop that I decided to reinstall Windows 7 on. Before wiping the old installation, I grabbed info about the product keys from the registry using the NirSoft ProduKey tool (I thought this would be enough). One of the entries was "Windows 7 Professional" and [...] read more
I have a Lenovo T520 laptop that came with Windows 7 Professional. The laptop does not have a Windows license sticker, but it came with legal system preinstalled. I was able to retrieve the Product Key with NirSoft ProduKey. I am sure that the key is correct, because I have [...] read more
I have a problem with my Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile v6535 laptop. I got it from dump and the HDD was bad, so i replaced it. At the begining, i was using a non-genuine copy of windows (because the COA sticker was damaged and unreadable) , but i erased that [...] read more
A little background story: I upgraded to Windows 10 while it was free, then rolled back to windows 7 within 30 days for the sole purpose of getting a “digital entitlement”. I didn’t use my PC for months, but today I thought of turning it on and see how my [...] read more