Windows 10: Install win 10 without activation

Hi all,
A while back on this BBS I read about installing windows 10 without activating it because you want to give your computer away and want the new owner to activate and put in all the setting that they want.
can some one post me the link to that? I can't find it.

Thanks
Sven

:)

 

CD Key does not work second time installing, but windows says it's active?

Once you have upgraded to win 10 (and activated) your license and activation ID is kept on the activation server. When you clean install it checks the server verifies your hardware and completes the install. There is no need to enter the key on install

All win 10 users (except for those who purchased win 10, MSDN, and Volume users) have the same generic win 10 key. It is useless without the activation ID on the server.

 

Reverting to original license in windows 10

Windows 7 key is not embedded as win 8 is. He will need the original win 7 pro key since Enterprise is not actually activated. It cannot be activated without a volume license. Only windows 10 Pro was eligible to install on a win 7 pro computer. Enterprise
is not part of the free upgrade offer. The tech was wrong to have installed Enterprise.

The original Win 10 upgrade was never completely installed so there is no activated license to retrieve. If there is a sticker with the activation key on the computer, that can be used to activate Win 10 Pro.

 

Hello Sven, *Smile

When you do a clean install, you could click on the I don't have a product key option (if available) at step 7 in the tutorial below.

https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/threads/clean-install-windows-10.246/

If you don't have that option or already have a clean installation, you could just uninstall the product key to deactivate it.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

 

Hi Brink,
Thanks for your replay, but there was an option not to activate windows 10 and let the new user do that including setting up all the option, like if you buy a new PC and when you first turn it on it wants to set up all the options and then activate it.

Sven

 

If you like, you could setup a dummy account during setup so that the new owner could use it to setup their own account on the PC, then delete the dummy account afterwards.

 

I guess I could do that, but how does, lets say, DELL do it? There must be a way

 

OEM's use scripts to allow OOBE (Out-of-box experience) - see here for more info
Apply Images Using DISM

 

Would it be:
sysprep /oobe

?

 

Thanks Superfly,

I learned something new today.
I will read some more later, but I don't know if I can do all that.
Thanks for helping
Sven

 

I found what I was looking for here
Windows 10 Image - Customize in Audit Mode with Sysprep - Windows 10 Forums

Kari did a great job on that
Sven