Activating Win10 using a key gives the user the opportunity to make sure that his copy of the operating system is genuine. But how can you activate Windows 10 with an activation key?
How to check the activation status
The first thing to find out is whether your copy of Windows is activated and whether the OS is linked to a Microsoft account. Linking your Microsoft account to Windows 10 is a critical step on your device. After all, after the user links the account to the digital license, he will be able to activate his OS again if necessary, and this can be done using standard tools for troubleshooting activation problems.
Key activation methods
In fact, this method depends on how the user got the copy of the operating system. There are two ways to activate - either entering a 25-digit product key, or using a digital license. If neither one nor the other is on hand, the official activation of the operating system will not work.
An important point: if you have a Win 10 operating system with version 1511, then the digital license will be called "digital resolution" in it.
Activating a copy of Windows 10 with a digital license
Digital licenses for the OS are directly related to two points: it is the user hardware of the computer and the user account of Microsoft. For this reason, with a digital license, the user does not have to search for anything on the computer.
The computer and Windows 10 automatically configures everything immediately after the computer connects to the Internet, and the user logs into a personal account. If there is no digital license, you can use the second legal activation method - using a key.
Activating a copy of Windows 10 with a product key
The product key in this case is a 25-character code. By its structure, such an activation code consists of 5 blocks of 5 characters each. Blocks are separated from each other by a hyphen.
There are two ways to use a product key - either during Windows 10 setup or after installation. In the second case, the user needs to click on Start, select the Updates and Security item there, then go to the Activations section and select the item to update the product key.
Note
It should be noted that Microsoft stores all user records, but this only applies to those OS keys that users bought from the Microsoft online store page. In order to find out where exactly a certain version of the OS was purchased, you should visit the "Order Log" category in your personal account. And yes, if the user has the key to activate the operating system, he can use the option to change the product key.
