Windows 10: Ideas of the best license to activate

I'm building a new desktop. I have some licenses hanging around so I figured I'd at least try to see if I can activate one rather than buy a new win10 pro

One license is a win7 pro on an old dell laptop. That was upgraded to win10 last year but I reverted back when I couldn't get it updated past 1803. The win7 license was an upgrade from XP. But that machine is actually currently running on a full retail 8.1 that I moved there from another machine after deactivating. That 8.1 is probably going to my grandson soon.

Have another desktop running win7 pro that is a full retail also upgraded from XP.

I know there has been discussion on whether you can still upgrade win7/8 but I figure it's worth a shot before plunking down $200.

So would I be better off trying to activate a brand new build off a win7 pro that was originally an upgrade BUT has been used to activate win10. So microsoft knows about this one already and might view it just a an OK change in hardware.

Or deactivate the desktop and swap licenses and use the full retail win7 pro even though that one has not been activated for win10 previously.

:)

 

Win 10 activation is expiring - volume license


Finally got it activated but still confused as to what is really going on with activation.

here is what I did:

-got another Win7 Pro key from a friend (non volume license one)
-I tried to activate it, but it gave the same error message as before, "could not activate with this key"
-following suggestion above, I tried it a second time. This time it activated !!! (internet was connected both times)

don't know why just doing it 2 times makes it work. maybe someone else can explain that.

I checked it with ShowkeyPlus and to my surprise it now said it was activated and showed the installed key as the generic Win10Pro key that is listed in above post. But I did not enter that key. ????

 

Your Windows license expires on...

Hi Hayurin,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would suggest you to check which version of Windows is activated.

Follow the below steps.

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  Go to settings.
  
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  Click on update and recovery.
  
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  Click on Activation.
  
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  And check which version of Windows is activated.
  

If it shows as insider preview then i suggest you to contact Microsoft Phone support as they have the right resources to activate windows 10.

Thank you.

 

How to activate SCCM server license

The SCCM server is already installed. And I am to activate the license but I never had experience.

Could you please provide step by step procedure to activate SCCM server license?