[GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

Tue Apr 13 21:50:22 EDT 2021

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 21:08, Howard Gibson via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

>
>    That file exists on my system, and I bought it as a motherboard and
> processor.
>

Maybe your motherboard BIOS came with a Windows licence? I don't know all
the ways it can get embedded there.

Either way, if you start the installation, it'll never ask you for a key
and you'll find everything's authorized automatically. Some machines (like
this HP laptop) have very obvious OEM licenses (the string "OEM" shows up
several times in the BIOS record) that probably wouldn't transfer well to
VirtualBox, etc.

cheers,
 Stewart
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