Usually, you'd activate Windows 11 (or 10) using the Settings app to enter the product key. However, if you're in an enterprise environment and you have a specific type of activation key, you can also ...

When Microsoft first launched the Windows operating system, installing it was only a matter of copying the program onto a disk. You didn't have to verify your copy of Windows. Starting with Windows XP ...

Facepalm: A Reddit user has made an uncomfortable discovery for Microsoft. The company's own AI assistant Copilot will provide you instructions on how to activate Windows 11 without a valid license.

Users are learning that they can ask Microsoft Copilot how to activate Windows 11 without paying. The AI will reply with third-party scripts you can use to pirate the OS. You can even ask it to ...

Windows Activation helps verify that your copy of Windows is genuine and hasn’t been used on more devices than the Microsoft Software License Terms allow. 1] Are you using the right product key? Make ...

First, let’s use the Slmgr command to access your license information. To do so, run the following command in CMD. The command will give you a brief description of your license information along with ...

In December 2022, we published a short PSA, reminding users they could still activate Windows 11 and 10 with valid Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 keys. This practice dates back to 2015 when Microsoft launched ...

Microsoft has confirmed that users can no longer use old Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 keys to activate Windows 11. And that applies not only to Canary builds, as it was last month—from now on, only genuine ...

Many of you may be familiar with Windows God Mode. It does not make your PC immortal, nor grant you infinite ammo. Instead, Windows God Mode puts an icon on your desktop that gives you quick two-step ...