Windows 10: Windows 10 Retail or OEM

I am thinking of upgrading my Windows 10 Home to Pro. My PC is about 7 years old and I bought it as a bare machine together with a Windows 8 disk which I installed myself. Over the years it has upgraded and is now Windows 10 2004. At some stage I will buy a new PC and before spending money upgrading to Pro I want to be sure that my Windows is Retail not OEM it should be Retail because of the way I bought it.


When I run slmgr /dli I do not get a little box with licence details. Instead I get all 3407 lines of the slmgr.vbs code.


How can I find out if I am OEM or Retail please?

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my windows 10 oem didn't come with a product key

Dude, go to Newegg right now and read the questions and answers tab on Windows 10 OEM. The OEM copies that are listed there DO in fact, come on an optical disc. The flash drive ONLY comes on Retail copies.

 

windows oem and retail

Maybe buy it from Microsoft & not a local shop ?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/get-windows-10?step=OSresultsHome

 

Question On OEM Windows clean install......

"Flavors" of Windows licenses

Windows can be a little "odd" about license keys. There are at least 4 categories:

• Retail
• OEM
• Volume (electronic download)
• Corporate (no key needed)

For guaranteed success, the license key and media should be in the same category. If you have retail media, you may not be able to install it using an OEM or Volume license key, even though the key is valid for that version of Windows. *Wtf :wtf: Apparently, this is part of Microsoft's anti-piracy scheme (i.e., all customers are guilty until proven innocent).