Windows 10: Identifying PC's from Digital Activation in microsoft account

Hello,

I have far too many PC's in the house, and most have Full Retail versions of Windows 7 upgraded to Windows 10.

To help me manage the digital entitlements/activations I used a single Microsoft account to keep all my digital licences in. Thought I was being clever, but possibly not *Sad

I have had a major hardware failure and needed to replace the motherboard in one PC. Obviously I needed to use the Activation trouble-shooter to recover the licence due to the scale of the hardware change. Problem arises as I'm unsure which licence is the licence that belongs with this PC. Is there a way to retrieve the Product Key from the Microsoft account digital licence? I don't want to inadvertently disable another PC when I re-activate this PC.

I can recover licence information from the working PC's using Produkey but can't see how to work out which Key belongs to which digital licence.

Any help or guidance very much appreciated.

:)

 

Link Microsoft Account to Windows 10 Digital License  

This is what i get on step 2

 

Link Microsoft Account to Windows 10 Digital License  

I'm having the same issue.

But I also have a device named "PC" in the device list now. It's just PC. I guess it appeared after the Anniversary update.

Before the update, I could see my computer on the MSA device list, even though I've been using local account. But now it appears only if I login to W10 using my Microsoft account. If I switch to local account, it disappears. But the "PC" stays there whether I use MSA or local acc.

So what's that "PC"? Any ideas?

It's also not cool that MS forcing people to use MS account to login their PCs. Activated devices were always in the device list even if you use local account before that so called update.

 

Link Microsoft Account to Windows 10 Digital License


Hey, I have a question.
Do you think the digital license is saved on my MSA after i changed back to my local account?

What I mean by that:
I Added MSA to my Windows 10 and it said in Activation tab "Windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account", and my PC was in device list of my MSA.
But I don't like the fact that I have to type in password every time I boot up. It's my private PC, I don't need password, I never had. So I switched back to my Local account. But now it's back to "Windows is activated with a digital license" only, and the PC is also gone from the device list on my MSA account.
Do you think it actually unlinked the license, or maybe because I logged in once, it saved anyway, and I will be good with activating in the future on a changed machine?