Can You REALLY Activate Windows for $12?!
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I disagree with you calling a brick useless
LOL pick it up & throw it... Not useless anymore.
At least she's pretty.
I mean, you can boot to bios setup, so that's cool
What about Gigabyte Brix?
Agreed, bricks aren't useless. If you want useless, look at a Mac.
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Alright, alright. Chill out Eminem.
Bought one, was already in use, they said it was my problem = scam
Thanks! You code worked for my purchase of the Windows 10 Home OEM key, Science Studio. It recognizes my custom built desktop PC well! Thank you so much!
Got my key from eBay... So far so good.......
Same. Bought mine almost 2 years ago. Definitely worth a shot for anyone wanting to save money.
Yup, me too and also I bought keys for my friends. Working fine.
Same, Bought mine months ago. It's perfectly working 👌
Adrian Lopez do you need a graphics card to see anything on your monitor?
from ebay you can get these keys with only 3$ and so far every single one has worked. Once the PC is connected to the internet and it has been confirmed it's there to stay.
Bricks are quite useful without an operating system from what I hear.
Or a one by one
@@sherpafan033 Or a big fat wall down south!
This is awesome. I'm keeping this downloaded for when I eventually build a fresh PC
Took me about 5 minutes max to go through registering, logging in and filling out form for procuring Windows 10 Pro. Within a minute of submitting form I received my Windows 10 Pro Key. The installation went smoothly and all seems aboveboard with no error message associated with this upgrade. Officially activated and your discount code was accepted immediately on purchase. Thanks
I'd still say you should always be cautious when using "gray market" keys. When I built my PC back in 2014, I bought a Windows 8.1 CD Key from g2a, then almost a year later, I had to buy a new key. I didn't want to deal with possibly getting another bad key, so I took a picture of my sister's college acceptance letter to get the student discount from Microsoft for 8.1 pro.
Ive done this a couple of times, no problems. Beats piracy.
Hardly exactly the same. For the price of lunch you don't have to worry about updates wiping your activation out, and you don't have to worry about malware hiding in whatever method you use. I'd much rather pay the $12 and not have to bother with all the bs.
Exactly, now $0 is cheaper than $20, but there are many people out there who don't wanna do piracy but have no choice. This might help.
Zwenk Wiel ehi look, I'm a thief and I am proud of it!
No it doesn't at all. Microsoft Toolkit 2.5.3 and upwards activates Windows 10 with less effort than this method. Plus, it's free and is using a genuine installation.
Windows ALWAYS updates as usual and even if (not that it ever happens) your activation gets revoked, you literally only have press "Activate" within Microsoft Toolkit again.
You do need a key, though. For that, simply google "Windows 10 key". Yeah, that will work. It does not a full license, basically any key will work. Even one that's in use already. It doesn't matter.
This is piracy that you pay somebody money for. If you're going to get into piracy, you might as well do it properly and pay nothing rather than pay a shady gray market reseller for a pirated key. Zwenk Wiel put it perfectly: you're paying a fence to pirate it for you instead of pirating it yourself. Which, by the way, means you have exactly the same risk of updates wiping out your activation as if you had pirated it yourself. Should've spent that $12 on lunch instead.
Built my gaming rig in November 2017, activated it with a $3 Windows 10 key from ebay, still running fine and updating as it should
Really did work, thanks this helped a ton
funny, I was just needing a Windows Key. thought it was an ad that was tracking what I was doing, but you just published it.
I've used this for about a year.. No problem here.. And i buy the key for like 8$ .. So just go for it!
Bought a couple off playasia a couple years back to get my keys valid, worked absolutely fine. I was a bit sceptical, but they are a very reputable site so gave it a whirl and was glad I did. As I understand it, a lot of these keys come from prebuilt machines that end up activated on a corporate or educational campus key, leaving the on-sticker key useless.
Thank You so Much Man!! I started to get sick at looking at the Windows not activated watermark it drove me insane, as well as the fact of knowing that i did not have it activated irritated me. Used to promo code, worked like a charm.
If SCDKey gets its keys from the same place as similar sites do, then they come from decommissioned PCs in Europe. Microsoft doesn't want you using those keys on other computers, but EU law says you CAN resell them, as long as the "donating" PC is no longer in use. This means those keys HAVE been used before, and you may need to make a phone call to Microsoft to get them to work. I have done this with keys purchased from similar sites. You usually don't have to talk to an actual person during that phone call, but if you do you just need to tell them the key is being used on a new PC that you just built or re-built. It's similar to what you sometimes have to do when you upgrade your motherboard and processor--since MS looks at that as an entirely new PC.
There are a couple of things that you do need to be aware of:
First, if you end up with an OEM key MS may not have to honor it. They were supposed to be sold with hardware only and I don't know what EU law has to say about that.
Second, it's still breaking the EULA, and even though EU law says those keys can be resold, US law does not. That means if you're in the US and MS decides not to allow the key there's nothing you can do. I have never had this happen, but there's a chance.
You are mostly right. The bulk of the keys are bulk purchased, recyclers can't satisfy the market. Most of the ones I have installed are fresh OEM or volume licenses from bulk purchase and activate easily. You are correct that it breaks the EULA but Microsoft couldn't care less because they want market share and more people to data mine with Windows 10.
You do not need to call anyone. The licences are already deactivated, and no longer linked to the previous hardware they were used on. A simple click on the ACTIVATION button will suffice to enable your licence on your new hardware indefinately. Yes there are alot of scammers selling pirated licences, but if you buy from reputed sources you will be ok
Marius Munteanu I've had to call twice using these keys. It always works after that, but regular activation would not work because MS knows they've been used before on different hardware.
It's cute watching all the random bullshit spewed by people who have never worked for Microsoft and think they know what's going on.
just like its cute seeing some random dude talk bullshit without backing it up? You give zero credence to your comments, other than to appear mightier than thou...
The reason that these are so cheap are because they are OEM keys. This means that they won't work on multiple systems and that you can't transfer it to a new system when building a new computer (or at least you can't easily without Microsoft's help). In addition, you can't activate an already installed Windows with these keys (or again, not easily without Microsoft's help). You'd have to do a fresh install.
Not bashing on the video or steering people away, but these are some things people should know before buying.
Adel ᅠ i used on multiple system using 1 key over 15 install for different friends. The 16th got me black listed but once its install and activated all the previous key still genuine. Only when i install it for future set up it wont work anymore. But under $10 who cares
edups just dont talk to a real life person representative. Talk to the computer operator. Usually when you install one oem key to one pc it wont work on the next. Just call the computer operator. Give them the activation code they give you a 20 digit code to reactivate it. Not sure if its 20 code or not but i been doing it since 5 years ago to this date. I think either by now or from now on calling the computer operator wont work anymore but that was the loop hole when i did window xp. Window 7 and window 8. One oem key using 5 different pc.
Actually, you are wrong, you can activate Windows without a problem. I know this from experience. I build a new PC a few month ago and installed Windows without a key. The watermark on the screen got annoying after some time, so I bought a key from G2A, activated Windows with it and I was done. No trouble whatsoever
Right from the beginning, OEM Windows Keys requires, by the ToS, that you put the Certificate of Authenticity sticker on the computer. Except on websites like that, you just get a key, you don't get the CoA. So you're paying for a Windows license key that might working, but you're not even allowed to use it by the ToS. You might as well save money and pirate it at this point (not that I condone piracy, it's just not that much different, in both cases, you're using a Windows version you're not allowed to use). And whether you can build your own PC and be allowed to use an OEM key is already a grey area by itself, since Microsoft always been pretty vague about it.
I give less than 0 fucks about all this bullshit but just for shits and giggles 1. I have a legit (call it semi legit if you please) copy of windows for 12 fucking dollars and have never/will never need to call microsoft for jack shit. 2. you CAN use it to activate an already installed windows. and 3. for 12 dollars I never expected it to work for multiple systems and will gladly pay 12 more dollars yearssss down the road when I decide to build another new pc. for now, I'll take that $100+ I saved and throw it towards an SSD or something :)
Very good video, my friend.
My hard drive just broke on my computer, and I really don't wanna spend a lot of money on a new OS, thank you!
I decided to click the notification bell for you. :)
thank you so much, you're a legend.
So, let me get this straight: you get sponsored by this company, tell them you’re buying a Win10 key from them, and that you're going to be publishing the results on RUclips. Don’t you think they’ll make sure _you_ get a genuine key, even if it’s the only one they have? What assurances are there that Joe Blow the ordinary non-RUclipsr is going to get the same treatment? You should have signed in under a fake identity and seen if the key you got that time was also genuine.
bro its not that complicated it works dam
he probably did use an alternate identity
I bought a key, applied the discount code and it works.
Agreed, pops.
People have used this link and have been scammed.
Hmm... I'm in the middle of building my first pc. If I don't want to clone windows 7 I can just buy a cheap windows 10. This could be useful. Thank you.
I was able to use my Win7 key to fuly activate Win10. Maybe try that before you buy another copy of windows.
I don't wanna upgrade my old pc's os, but I might wanna use a new os on the new pc. I strongly believe in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." So it's okay for me to get new stuff for the new build. However, I wonder if I clone windows 7 os onto the new pc's drive, would I be able to upgrade from 7 to 10 that way without affecting the old one.
Buy on ebay, way cheaper
if you do a fresh install of Win10, you can use the software key of your Win7 and it will work. Has something to do with when they had the free upgrade for the first year.
Edit: after an update a while ago (don't remember when) the win7 bug I mentioned no longer works with the updated win10 installer
Or buy a Windows 7 key.
Thanks brother, it worked!! I watched many video but only this worked!!
Heyo it works dope thanks man!!
I have don't have my windows 10 activated but it's completely usable. You just get some personalisation options and get rid of the watermark if you activate it.
Dominik Kužila I use it like that too, the watermark annoys me but it is FREEEE
Lol just get a 5$ liscence you cheapos
Under a bridge too far Do those windows 10 licences on ebay work? I was wondering about getting one.
Yeah they do, if it's a OEM you can only activate it on 1 motherboard (machine/computer) tho but yes and defenitly worth it
Dominik Kužila Same
Congratulations, You just watched a five minute ad for SCDKey.
Nixento N I literally said it was an ad... Congratulations for starting the obvious?
Greg Salazar ahem a scam
Thank you, worked for me!
Bought my self a copy of windows 10 pro thanks a lot for recommending this site (btw. used your discount code). Thank you
I've gotten myself a win10 pro keys over there for little over a month now and so far it works fine. its verified as the digital license on windows. worth every penny
Mark L worth why? Chances are Microsoft isn’t getting money off this site so you’re basically paying $12 to “pirate”
You Are not true at all. There are bulk purchase options for corporations which don't always use them all. Forfeited keys are legit and can be resold or given away. There are also other reasons for paid keys to be made available.
Also Windows is now a drop in the bucket for MS now compared to Office or Azure which are their main money markers.
You Are The problem?
hey man, how do you know this key (that you bought) isnt a temporary key?
I just bought a Windows 10 Pro OEM Key and it worked flawless. It did take about 15min for me to receive the key in my email from purchasing but that was the only struggle. I recommend. 3-27-19
Gave this a try and it worked! auto-upgraded from win 10 home to pro. thanks for the discount code!!
Interesting - will be curious to see if these keys are permanent licenses or they will expire after some random period of months (as with other sellers). Look forward to your thoughts!
did it expire ?
Did it expire?
I recently built a new computer, put the installation media from Microsoft on a USB drive, then installed it... I selected that I didn't have a key (was going to buy one from eBay or something later). However to my surprise, I never saw the water mark on the bottom right... To confirm, I went into settings and it said it had been activated. Honestly I have no idea what happened, but hey, got a free copy of windows 10 out of it
It only starts showing after a few weeks of going unregistered. You also haven't tried using the personalize settings either then, those are blocked as well.
You can't change your background, window colors, lock screen apps (like calendar), theme, start menu options, and taskbar options.
Well it could be activating if the motherboard was a refurbished. I've had luck in the past doing a clean install on mine and clients pc's and Windows 10 reactivating without a product key. I store key information about users hardware to merry an activation key to that specific hardware.
Sam its gonna last 7 days after it you are gonna see it bolded
watermark shows after a week or so
What happens if you just use it without ever activating ?
I have always wondered if these work and have post phoned a purchase... Thank you for this video.
Life saver! Literally just bought mine
So I built a new system last night, and had recently seen this video. I gave it a try and I really couldn't believe it worked. Not sure how they get their keys for so cheap but I'll take it lol
They get their keys from varying places of legality. From buying bulk excess OEM keys from manufacturers to theft
Does it still work?
no piece of machinery is ever useless if it can run linux.... because if you cant run windows 10. there are at least 5 good linux distro's that will run on your brick.
seriously though nice vid. thanks for the info. ill definately be bookmarking this for when i do my summer build in a couple months.
Nexus Linux is pretty useless unless you like building every app you use and dodgy drivers.
Maybe for an end-user but for a software developer it's indispensable.
+Rob Leonard This used to be true, but nowadays it's much easier. Yeah, a little bit of knowledge is required, but you are getting huge benefits in return if you want a workstation or to revive an old PC. Gaming will get better and better if more people use the platform. The drivers are mature enough(both for nVidia and AMD). You don't need to compile a single thing if you are using a normal distro. But you need to learn a new environment. This is what is frustrating for most, they grew with Windows and they are so used to it that they are willing to put with spyware and ads. Practicality > Commodity.
Rob Leonard uh, amd and even Nvidia nowadays run without issue
Murphy deffa you have not used Linux at all recently have you
I recognise that key. I've used the support app in windows 10 multiple times to get Win10 activated for numerous people after upgrades and so on, that's a generic key I've seen them use to activate the system remotely just about every time.
Yeah it worked Greg, many many thanks!
"I don't know where they get the keys from, but they work and that's all a consumer needs to worry about". Ever heard of the G2a dumpster fire?
can i buy mine from g2a?
I've bought mine from eBay and it seems legit activation key. The remaining question is, how come?
Simple Microsoft makes way more money harvesting your data and selling it then they make off windows, they know this is happening they don't care
they are keys lifted from old pre built machines i think
Might be a volume key. Meaning these are free keys that can expire.
used them for windows server 2016 standard... worked PERFECTLY.. will be using them for everything now
Worked for me. Been about a week and running strong ! Windows 10 Pro ! , thanks again !
$12 key is OEM version!
OEM Versions of Windows 10 are identical to Full License Retail versions except for the following:
- OEM versions do not offer any free Microsoft direct support from Microsoft support personnel
- OEM licenses are tied to the very first computer you install and activate it on
- OEM versions allow all hardware upgrades except for an upgrade to a different model motherboard
- OEM versions cannot be used to directly upgrade from an older Windows operating system
Accidentally bought OEM Windows 10. Good thing I got a badass motherboard that won't need future updates for a long while.
My old windows 7 Pro code worked for Windows 10 Pro
This is certainly an interesting service. I don’t need a Windows10 key right now, plus there’s one on the back of my refurb ThinkPad which should allow me to use a Home key if I ever need it. But I’d be curious to see if they have older versions, like Server 2008. The mobile site didn’t work overly well for search so I’ll have to try it out later to see what options they have.
Just bought one, worked perfectly fine. Didn't even have to deal with phone activation like in some Kinguin cases.
I've used Keys like this from Kinguin for 5 builds a d they work every time. ALTHOUGH, I would be take this one step further after activation. Yes, it's a pain in the A!# but create a Microsoft account and link your account to your activation key.
Reason I say this is, I bought a key similar to this one, from Kinguin. Worked fine, but the PC I was working in ran into problems so I had to reinstall windows. I used the same key and it didn't work. After trying multiple ways to reactivate the key using Microsoft phone service I called and spoke to someone. They said the key had already been used more than the alloted number of times on multiple systems.
So my best guess with is, these keys sold on sites like these are sold multiple times. Yes your purchase may be guaranteed, but take the extra step.
the site doesn't seem to be working, when I try to search it in scdkey dot com or follow the link in the description, it just stays in the page.
xyoopridex same
Worked for me. Thanks
Science Studio
Based on your recommendation I tried it and now I have an activated windows 10 pro. It took about 10 minutes for it to show up, after setting up the account etc. But yeah, not a bad experience at all. Worth saving all that money.
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I use that exact usb stick for my windows installations...
But u cant u need minimum of 8 gb lol
@@duranolmez7633 "2 years ago", I hope you do realize windows gets updated quite frequently.
@@rivenissmart Lmao diddnt think you would react
Did this a few weeks back , same site and price (thx to Tech Deals) and it worked just fine . Thx Greg for re-confirming this deal .
I did it for free thanks to my high school giving every IT student 10 free windows 10 product keys
Kyle could you message me one thanks
Congrats for supporting the grey market...
Congrats for supporting the illegal market.
Congratulations for being clueless about OEM and volume keys that are bought in bulk from Microsoft you two. I will go pay 1/10 what you will and I have never had a problem with the keys. I have installed some that are over two years old and working fine so have fun burning money.
wish I had this dumped 100on my windows thanks so much this will help me on my next build!!
Got the boot drive worked out, it's a bit different when using an NVMe drive as your boot drive. Thanks for this video. I'm up and running on my new PC with Windows 10 Pro, and I did use your discount code! Now for the big question, who sells a cheap version of Microsoft Office??!!!
This is way better than pirate version. Worked fine on my pc after 2 years. I’ve upgraded my cpu and motherboard and it still work fine. Even if it doesnt work anymore just buy a new key for 10 bucks. Thats cheap af lol
sbcontt YT its not piracy, its an oem key that system integrators use. its not a retail key
Jimut is right, this is the stuff that companies like Dell and Hp get, they don't pay full price, they get a OEM discount.
Do one better and buy the retail version and use it over and over for a few bucks more, the retail key doesn't lock to the motherboard bios
Jimut Jayadev
No its not. Those are just the lies they feed you, How do you think they are actually so cheap? They are either MSDN keys, volume install keys, etc or brought with stolen credit cards and using those keys breaks the ToS which makes them non legit keys that can be deactivated.
if it doesn't work anymore just contact microsoft and they'll give you a new one. it's how i got my win 10 pro key
The reason for price difference is the licensing. This one, most probably is an OEM license. I’ve bought two of them and both work. With OEM license you cannot change your motherboard (or sometimes even hard drive, I don’t remember exactly). With the standard license that comes with $200 version, you can use it on different PCs, but only one will remain active at a single time.
PS: There’s also a more expensive 5 PC license.
From what I've expected recently the motherboard is the item it pairs with. Hard drive seems ok. Just did an equipment swap around with a new board and it wanted a new key. I upgraded the hard drive a while ago with a fresh install and that went smoothly with the same key.
Oh that actually makes sense
Kingquin is the best, ive been using their win10 cd keys and game keys for years, no worries...i currently have 3 pcs running kingquin keys, no hassels all updated without a problem..
Well i just bought 2 thank you so much!
$12 is pricy!
i activated It with $5.7
hahahaha you never put $ after the value.
You can do it for $0 if you use KMS Pico 😂
Leon Vollebregt that's illegal
So windows license's payd with stolen credit cards aren't iligeal?
Leon Vollebregt if it's a free key it should be stolen because who in the world would steal a credit card and buy things and give them away it wouldn't make sense
I can’t find the windows 10 key WTH is it just not on their website anymore?
Look on other websites but make sure they are legit
Go on ebay and get one from any company in England.
R I had to go on it using tech deals link . Got it for a tenner
Just took advantage of this deal.. Thanks..
Hey Greg, great video!
I was looking into getting a key for Win10 Pro from this site. But I have a question to ask you:
I’ve been running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB (2016) and my activation recently shit itself, but I’ve been thinking of just switching to Win10 Pro if I buy activation.
Do I have to / should I reinstall with a Win10 Pro ISO before using a Pro key or will a Pro key automatically revert my LTSB edition to Pro?
I used scdkey and had no issues aside from having to extend my system partition and still no issues. My only gripe is with Windows 10 april update 1803 itself, it chews up RAM like jack black chews up scenery and has a lot of instability with DX11+ applications
Yeh , Ive put off doing the April update "just incase" , things go down hill or terribly wrong . Those Intel flaws are not helping either . Thx Zap guess I'll wait to update . ;)
I've been on the Windows Insider preview line and I've had no instability issues. The only programs I have that eat up my RAM are chrome and MS Edge. Everything else is behaving normally. Try reinstalling the crashy apps or factory reset?
Mil Man the way the new update stores activity in RAM appears to be the issue, I limit my page file to a fairly small amount to avoid slow memory issues (I only have 8gb ddr4 because it's so expensive right now and my APU uses about 2.9 of that at all times) the instability issues seem to be due to available RAM and possibly overclocks? I could try a factory reset I suppose and hope that fixes it, i try to avoid too many read/write operations because I have an expensive m.2 ssd
@Zap, SSD's have a finite but very large pool of write cycles available, there really is no need to limit your read/write cycles to preserve them honestly. with 8gb ram installed with an apu pulling 2.9gb at all times I can about guarantee your issue is with the ram being limited to a lil over 5gb instead of the full 8gb, I'd really suggest biting the bullet and getting a 16gb kit and calling it a day.
My OS SSD is a sata 3 6gb/s and has an estimated 5 years left of life and I bought it 4 years ago, my very first SSD from 2011 still has over 95% health left as well.
I upgraded to the windows 1803 build a couple days ago and I have had zero issues with it, it has actually increased my system's responsiveness in some cases.
Specs:
Ryzen 5 1600X OC'd to 3.9ghz
Gigabyte A-B350-Gaming 3 motherboard
16gb G-Skill Aegis DDR4 3000
Asus R9 270X 4gb GPU OC'd from 1120/1400 to 1180/1480 (its basically a factory overclocked, rebranded radeon HD7870)
My pc uses 1.4 gb of ram when idleing and around 5 gb when in chrome while on the april update, my ram speed is ddr3 1866 mhz by gskill ripjaws X cl 9. In games the highest it went up was 9.5 gb of ram, i play at high setting in 1440p with a gtx 1070 and a i7 4790k
That wallpaper is so popular
Bought mine from scdkey, had a bad key in the beginning but after talking to customer service I received a working key within minutes. Definitely recommend scdkey.
It worked. Thanks.
👆👆👆 Windows 10 $14
Visually, the two are quite different, but there are also other under-the-hood changes that set the next generation of Windows apart from the current generation. You probably have questions about whether you should upgrade, and we have you covered with this look at all the differences between the two
Why don't you go on command promp and type slmgr -dli to find out what kind of key you have...to make sure it is not a volume key that will expire sometime ?
Thanks for the is comment i bought a key from ebay i think so i was curious to see if mine had an expiry date attached to it luckily it did not. Also to my surprise i only paid 5 dollars Canadian for it. Kinda surprised it doesn't have an expiry date
@@canucks1988 The important thing to find out is what kind of key you got: Volume, OEM,Retail. The 2 last one have no expiring date they are go all the time. The volume key does not give you the date that it will stop but it will before it make 1 year. Mine keep on telling me that it will expire soon. If you don't know the difference between OEM and Retail let me know it will be a plaisure for me to explain both key.
Richard
I bought 2 of these keys last week.. Both worked and as a test, I reloaded one of my systems on a test SSD. I didn't enter the product key, I just picked the Windows version and when all said and done, it was activated by Microsoft after it connected.
Great video thank you. I just jioned them and used them to get Office Pro 2016 for someone. It was fast and easy.
About the win 7 to win 10 free upgrade not working any more. It actually does work fine I have been using win 7 keys when doing fresh Windows 10 installs and once booted is always activated.
I got a pirated version of windows 7, used one of those tools to trick it into thinking it was activated, and then windows gave me the "free upgrade to windows 10 for all windows 7 and 8 users during the first year of release"
Yup did the same with my old Core 2 Quad PC... Still working fine to this day.
you are cool
Way to be a pirate from 10 years ago 👍
2 years later... do they not offer windows anymore?
Just bought a OEM key from the website, it works!
12.60 wow dude thank you!! That sub way back was WORTH IT!!
Ok so what these keys are, they are usually one of 2 things: They can either be cracked, aka they did the pirating for you and now youre paying for illegitimate software OR they are something called a KMS key which are sold for corporations and such for cheaper when they buy them in bulk, BUT they need a Key Management Server (which is not hosted by microsoft like OEM keys are) so you run the risk of that KMS going down and suddenly your key can't validate itself anymore.
I once had a KMS key and it went down after like 9 months of use and it was a pain in the ass to deal with, but now I atleast have more experience on what the different keys mean and how this cheap windows license market works
Ahhh. So that is why a netbook I had suddenly lost it's license.
They are either OEM or volume licenses, I know because I have installed plenty and have checked some of them. I have keys activated over two years ago that work fine. Also kracking or what was actually phishing keys from Microsoft servers hasn't been a thing since Windows 7.
pfff...ive been activating it FOR FREE for the last 20 years
piracy
@@ciociaroirrequiete2927 show me man do you have a discord
show you what?just download a pre-activated/cracked iso online
i paid for my win 7 ultimate about 10 bucks. student price
@@theoverrater8373 just use a crack tool , not that hard to find honestly
Where to find that wallpaper on you rig behind you? It is beautiful!
Tried this as of August 2019, still works. Was kinda annoyed by the watermark appearing in my games so I gave in.
bought the OEM version worth $16?
Glenn Patrick Domingo I bought windows home because I didn’t have a need for pro, and with the promo code it was about $11
The things is though that you have no idea where those keys originally came from and how they were acquired.
義の軍Oscar most are bulk purchased from Microsoft directly through authorized buyers or might be EU recycled keys.
To get windows:
Open you internet browser and type bestkey355
Hi there. Very helpful video! However, I have a question. When I boot up my laptop, my laptop isn't able to read my brand new SSD. I already tried different solutions like downloading the F6 drivers into USB drive, initialize the brand new SSD on different computer. However, none of them work. What can I do please?
Cool I’ll check it out thanks
I got mine for $16 and some change. Works perfectly, no more watermark
This site may sell keys that work, but I have many doubts about where they get them. They probably get them from an illegal source of they would be running a loss with their company. Idk about this one.
One of my professors was a Microsoft certified teacher or something and he could get windows 10 keys for his students for like $5. To this day I still hit him up when I need one. I'm sure they use something like this and still make a profit.
So the key is sold illegally. That's like selling a TechNet key.
ikus2011 It's probably poeple buying loads of keys woth stolen credit cards, then the credit card owner contects the company for his money back, but the keys are still out there and working. That's when they get sold for such a low price. They do this with video games aswell.
scdkey doesn't have a single windows 10 product on its site now
www.scdkeys.com/software/microsoft-pc-10-pro-oem_1227-20.html
thank you, i uses the search option and the only thing that was appearing was final fantasy
No problem
Thanks, I was about to comment I saw window pro retail activation key for 5 pcs a month ago for 32 dollars. My Pay Pal paid to someone in Chinese writing I couldn't even read "for the other stuff" I bought so I left the insane deals alone after that. :)
Save your money and get a key on ebay for under $4
Thank you my key cost me 12.68 i had just installed windows 10 home and needed to activate and i remembered you talked about a place i could get a key for 12 to 14 dollars it saved my hyde thanks.
never had an issue with scdkey, used it several times.
I bought mine for $3 on Ebay.
Metarortiz does it have a watermark?
Hey just something you should know: on the activation screen it said “linked with Microsoft account” so if you signed in to an old account it may be registering the PC as that. Maybe try signing out of the MS account to double check?
I logged into my personal account after the fact and the system remained activated.
Science Studio good to know. Are you going to do a follow up vid in a few months to reaffirm what you have already discussed? A friend did this one time and said that his PC worked fine at first and then became deactivated 3-4 months after purchasing the key, although when I looked at the website he got it from it looked a lot more sketchy than scdkey.com
Of course I will :-)
I had the same comment but I'm glad you already answered the question. Looking forward to that follow up video! Great work
thx man, I just build my new pc and have no problem with the 14$ key
pretty normal price over here in the EU. We have an rule established by the EU that OEM versions of Operating systems and other software are not allowed to be hardware locked. additionally Companies have to allow people that they can resell their OEM licenses if they want to. So you have a large supply with perfectly legal OEM keys for large variaty of (normally very expensive) software, including Windows, Bluray-Software and Burning suits.
We'll see in 3 months. 😅👌
it will work just fine. key is linked with ms account.
I have one since late 2016 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ok, it works... But why so cheap...
Did the codes fall from a truck or something?
Beethoven Dalmao
Well, apparently they take used keys from old OEM machines, and claim to 'repurpose' them.
Yes. Its OEM keys. I got mine for $2 only.
Amir Zharif you paid for pirated products.
NazmusLabs nope. Its basically just the same as the one shown in this vid. But in my place, we got seller selling them them at so much cheaper price.
Amir Zharif the key is illegal.
I used a key from the site mentioned to upgrade Windows 10 Home to Pro on my Surface Pro 7.
It worked thx bro
The site has no mention of Windows 10 keys now... perhaps they ran out
yeah man i just looked them up and it said no results, that's a little sus
Hot Boy Harry there on g2a
should of at least explained why this is legal
Those are oem keys, the sellers got the windows copyes from disposed laptops old mobos with original keys stuff idnt know its stupid but its same as of you where geting your key from your old lenovo dual core windows 10 key
25baam I don't buy the recycled laptops story because there are not enough of those to satisfy the market, though keys like this are bulk purchased legally from Microsoft and are either OEM or volume licenses. I have installed some that are over two years old and still working great.
Adam W weell its like w/e who cares as long as those work bcause i just bouht it for the windowsdefender, i lost already something precious using windows 10 kms+ kaspersky, now with windows defender+malwarebytes almost 3 years and no problems
+Adam W
A windows 7 pro key, will work on windows 10 pro install. Same with all the other editions. windows 7 came out in 2009, I'd say it's more plausible then you think.
they are fully legeit there are many companies that pay for a set amount of keys to programs and nbuy them in bulk to sell on that is all these are.
ay thanks bruther i had the activate window icon on my screen for 2 months but this helped
Still working, I just paid about £11 here in the UK and with in a few minutes I had my key and windows activated.