Windows 10: Can I use 3rd party software to activate the office key and windows 10 license key?

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Get Windows 10 Activation Key Without 3rd Party Software

Just install Windows 10. Since the machine in question already has an activated copy of Windows 10, it will automatically activate after you reinstall. When asked for the product key you can either skip that step or provide the original license key from Windows 7 or Windows 8 that you used.

If you upgraded from a previous installation of Windows there isn't an activation key that can be extracted. Here is Microsoft's official stance on the subject though:

The article continues with the following notice:

The following applies to the question's described situation:

Windows 10 Activation

What this basically means is that any machine that has ever had an activated Windows 10 installation on it, will automatically activated upon future installations of Windows 10, even if a product key is not provided upon the installation of Windows 10. If installing onto a formatted drive there is of course no way to get the "upgrade" digital entitlement, but a valid key from an older Windows license will work instead.

It is worth making it clear that, Windows users who accept the free Windows 10 license, are not granted their own unique Windows 10 product key.

 

Get Windows 10 Activation Key Without 3rd Party Software

Is there an inherent Microsoft-Exclusive way of obtaining Windows 10 Activation keys from existing installations? Even if this is not necessary with Windows 10 specifically, I want to emphasize my interest in non-3rd-party ways of getting such keys from prior versions of Windows too.

Unnecessary Background Info:

I've upgraded numerous workstation to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.

I want to reinstall Windows 10 from scratch on one of these workstation, but I don't want to have to install windows 7 (or 8) first.

Before doing this, I'd like to obtain the activation key from the current installation of Windows 10.

In the past, I've always resorted to using 3rd Party software to obtain keys, but have never liked doing so.

Is there an inherent Microsoft-Exclusive way of obtaining Windows 10 Activation keys from existing installations?

 

Windows 10 Creators Update Still Activates with "old" Windows 7/8 License Keys

Wait...I upgraded from a legal/activated copy of 7 to 10. The only license key I have for 10 is actually for 7. I don't actually have a license key for 10. I suppose I don't need one since it's tied to my hardware. But...oh never mind. I guess I have no point. *Oops!