Windows 10: Activation Scams

I got very lucky, he only scammed me for the money and he actually removed the virus he originally used. As for the money, I paid with PayPal, challenged the payment and got it reversed. I am convinced this guy is/was a MSFT employee-contractor.

I really appreciate all the help, here. You people made this possible.

OUT

 

Hi there

I have NEVER - nor do I know anybody who has EVER had a problem installing a Retail legit copy of Windows on any machine they want to -- 99% of the time activation works just fine -- in other cases a phone call to the activation centre works just fine -- usually the "Robot one" works just fine -- if the "Robot" can't handle it you get put through to a human who will invariably get your activation working OK.

I really can't understand any of these activation problems provided the user has got a legit retail license -- sometimes of course people try and get an upgrade license for a product that doesn't qualify --but that's hardly Ms's fault if people don't obey the rules.

There's absolutely nothing wrong in moving the Windows OS to a new machine -- Ms won't refuse these cases -- however you MUST remove Windows from a previous machine. If you don't comply with the rules you can't expect the thing to work - nor should you.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Once all is GOOD, get OPABackup. It will backup Windows AND Office. If you ever have to reinstall either of these, the OPABackup Restore function will reactivate these programs. This IS legal as it does not supply keys, etc, it just uses what you had installed already. I know this works as a while ago a Windows update deactivated Office. OPA fixed it and the backup file is only about 8MB.

 

"get OPABackup. It will backup Windows AND Office"

Is there a new version available ? The developer's site has this disclaimer-
Please note: Due to changes made by Microsoft to the activation procedures of Windows 10 and Office 2016 it is currently not possible to restore the activation data for these products successfully.

 

I am still using version 342. As some may not know, this is just an exe and does not install. However, it does work with Windows 10 and Office 2013 and 2016. However you must use the same Windows and Office version that you used when running the backup.