Windows 10: reactivate windows after hardware change or problem switching from windows 11 to windows 10?

I bought a prebuilt PC that had windows 10 on it. I upgraded to windows 11I think its a digital license. I swapped the motherboard and GPU but used the same SSD's and CPU. The system booted up no problem and was using it for some time. I took my PC to a repair shop where they wiped my drives and did a fresh install of windows 10. So I went from my licensed windows 11 back to windows 10. About a month later, I keep getting the windows activation watermark every few days. I go to the Activation page to troubleshoot, about 2 seconds after I click, it tells my that my license has successfully b

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Windows 10 Hardware change

So i will be changing my cpu, motherboard, ram to the z170 and i was wondering how i am going to reactivate windows 10. my parts should be here by the 11/18/2015 i want to prepare. *Smile thanks!

 

Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

You will have to reinstall windows 8.1 with the key you have the upgrade again. I had a windows 8.1 to windows 10 upgrade and I switch from Raid to AHCI and windows wanted to reactivate which it failed to do so giving me a error saying key was already activated. You could imagine my rage when this happened.. I did switch any hardware out but only a software change and windows thought I had changed the hard drive.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

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