Windows 10: Will OEM Win 11 key work with a retail install?

This is a bit of a long shot, but my mother just purchased a new HP desktop. Geek Squad is doing a few upgrades and hooking everything up for her as I live out of state. According to my google sleuthing, prebuilts still appear to come with bloatware. If I am unable to talk her through removing the HP and other bloat,, is it possible to install a fresh copy of windows 11 VIA media creation tool - USB and use her OEM license as reported in registry if it doesn't auto-activate? TIA!

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Question On OEM Windows clean install......

"Flavors" of Windows licenses

Windows can be a little "odd" about license keys. There are at least 4 categories:

• Retail
• OEM
• Volume (electronic download)
• Corporate (no key needed)

For guaranteed success, the license key and media should be in the same category. If you have retail media, you may not be able to install it using an OEM or Volume license key, even though the key is valid for that version of Windows. *Wtf :wtf: Apparently, this is part of Microsoft's anti-piracy scheme (i.e., all customers are guilty until proven innocent).

 

activate windows 7 oem key

FWIW, WinXP OEM and Retail disks and keys cannot be interchanged. I suspect it's the same with Win 7.

The good thing is that any OEM key will work with any OEM install, regardless of the branded vendor.

 

Using OEM license key on installation from Retail USB

You can use any product key after installing from a retail USB ,

Kindly note that the OEM keys are not supposed to sell separately , OEM keys are provided my manufactures along with their devices (like Dell Hp etc) , suggest to get a retail license if it is a self built computer or a computer sold without windows pre-loaded.