Windows 10: Windows 10 Home Reinstallation

Hi,


About a month ago, I purchased a Windows 10 Home activation key for a Parallels enabled Windows 10 Home installation on my MacBook Pro. Shortly after, I decided to completely uninstall both Windows 10 and Parallels for Mac from that Macbook Pro due to shortage of disk space. Now I have re-allocated disk space on my Mac and have just reinstalled both Parallels and Windows 10 Home. However, I got an activation error message asking me to purchase another license for Windows 10 since it has already been activated on a device.


Well obviously that 'already-activated device' is a Mac virtual machine that I completely uninstalled. I know that for my Office 365 subscription, I can easily log into my Office account and deactivate installs on certain devices and install Office on new devices so that at any time, I only have 5 machines running my Office 365 subscription.


How do I do the same for Windows? In other words, how do I de-activate the previous Windows 10 Home install so that I can reinstall it on a new machine?


thanks

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