Do I have to buy a new license of windows 10 when I upgrade my mobo,cpu and ram
- Thread starter Willehei
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No, you can move it 
As above states, if you only have it on one pc at a time, you can move the retail copy to your next pc, just have to deactivate it on the old one first
So even though you using everything else the same, swapping motherboard/CPU is seen as a new PC to Microsoft.
Here are instructions on how to do that: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/deactivate-uninstall-windows-product-key
if you have any problems with the transfer, contact Microsoft and tell them what you are doing.
As above states, if you only have it on one pc at a time, you can move the retail copy to your next pc, just have to deactivate it on the old one first
So even though you using everything else the same, swapping motherboard/CPU is seen as a new PC to Microsoft.
Here are instructions on how to do that: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/deactivate-uninstall-windows-product-key
if you have any problems with the transfer, contact Microsoft and tell them what you are doing.
- Jun 12, 2015
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No, you can move it
As above states, if you only have it on one pc at a time, you can move the retail copy to your next pc, just have to deactivate it on the old one first
So even though you using everything else the same, swapping motherboard/CPU is seen as a new PC to Microsoft.
Here are instructions on how to do that: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/deactivate-uninstall-windows-product-key
if you have any problems with the transfer, contact Microsoft and tell them what you are doing.
As above states, if you only have it on one pc at a time, you can move the retail copy to your next pc, just have to deactivate it on the old one first
So even though you using everything else the same, swapping motherboard/CPU is seen as a new PC to Microsoft.
Here are instructions on how to do that: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/deactivate-uninstall-windows-product-key
if you have any problems with the transfer, contact Microsoft and tell them what you are doing.
- Mar 16, 2013
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Colif :
No, you can move it
As above states, if you only have it on one pc at a time, you can move the retail copy to your next pc, just have to deactivate it on the old one first
So even though you using everything else the same, swapping motherboard/CPU is seen as a new PC to Microsoft.
Here are instructions on how to do that: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/deactivate-uninstall-windows-product-key
if you have any problems with the transfer, contact Microsoft and tell them what you are doing.
As above states, if you only have it on one pc at a time, you can move the retail copy to your next pc, just have to deactivate it on the old one first
So even though you using everything else the same, swapping motherboard/CPU is seen as a new PC to Microsoft.
Here are instructions on how to do that: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/deactivate-uninstall-windows-product-key
if you have any problems with the transfer, contact Microsoft and tell them what you are doing.
This 'deactivate' actually does nothing. It simply tells 'this pc' that it has no license. It does not phone home and tell the activation servers.
It is not needed, nor referenced in the EULA from Microsoft.
All that says is that you must remove it from the old PC.
There is no 'deactivation' needed.
- Jun 12, 2015
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I wasn't sure, its not a question I had come across before. So I searched and found that. It was probably more useful before win 10 and fact licence is tied to hardware now, if its not a retail copy, it makes it pointless.
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