If you assembly a desktop pc yourself or just bought a new laptop that has no operating system yet and want to install windows 10 you can use use retail license.
Windows 10 license check.
If however you received windows 10 as a free upgrade from 8 or 7 you will not find a license key.
These are the steps to quickly check whether your desktop pc laptop or tablet is running an oem retail or volume license of windows 10 with command prompt.
Depending on how you got your copy of windows 10 you ll need either a 25 character product key or a digital license to activate it.
These methods will only work if you purchased a license in either physical or digital form from microsoft or if the computer you purchased came with the os installed.
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A digital license called a digital entitlement in windows 10 version 1511 is a method of activation in windows 10 that doesn t require you to enter a product key.
Press windows r to open run enter regedit to open registry editor.
Stored on windows registry.
To view your windows 10 product key in the windows registry.
Windows information protection requires either mobile device management or system center configuration manager to manage settings.
Check under the license status section and make sure the status reads licensed to verify that windows 10 is fully activated.
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Windows software licensing management tool slmgr vbs is a licensing tool to help configure licensing view status activation id in windows 10 8 7.
Licensed for one pc or mac.
Windows 10 license types.
If you purchased windows 10 online you may find the license key is included in an email that microsoft sent you at the time of purchase.
Once you complete the steps your copy of windows 10 should be.