Does anyone have a Windows 11 key to give away?

Operating Systems & Open Source Windows
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Does anyone have a Windows 11 key to give away?

The price for a key isn’t that high second-hand, but maybe someone has an excess of keys and a good heart. :slight_smile:

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Oh well… I had to buy a key for $2 ha ha :slight_smile:

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still need one?

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I bought one key for W11 home for about $2… the company that sells it claims that it is legal, although I will not argue about legal issues. As long as MS does not block it, I am fully satisfied. :slight_smile:

At the moment I do not have an emergency situation, although I plan to change W10 to W11 on another laptop, but not yet. :slight_smile:

So if something happens, I will write. Thx :slight_smile:

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Oh, I don’t have any.

Was just wondering…

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is MS not letting you just roll over 10 keys anymore? My 10 laptop keeps trying to sneak a downgrade to 11 in on me. That would just be one more layer of bullshit if it then asked me to buy a new key to activate. Hell my 10 desktop is still using the 7 OEM key from the disk I bought in 2011, it has made no complaints activating either of the times I installed on new hardware, and I’m pretty sure it has also tried to get me to update to 11.

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I’m not entirely sure about this…

I had a situation where I needed a clean installation of W11Home without even access to a W10 key, so I didn’t even waste time on playing around.

However, on other machines with W10, from what I remember, there is no possibility at all to perform an update while preserving data, as was the case with 7 to 10, where keys were also honored.

Most of my W10s are W7 licenses after the update. So W11 would have to accept keys from W7. :slight_smile:

In addition, the known hardware requirements and TPM, which are bypassed on older machines, of course.

But anyway, it probably is not possible to perform an update from W10 to W11 while preserving settings, only a clean installation, at least on a few of my old machines it looked like this.

Which means that you have to enter the key again, with the key from W7 probably won’t work in such a situation.

Or maybe I’m wrong… :slight_smile:

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My 10 installs with the 7 key were clean. Just saying if/when you find yourself needing to install windows again, it’s worth trying typing in any old key strings you might still have access to.

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Possible, although in many of my cases I wanted to keep all the settings, but with machines that do not meet the W11 requirements, only a clean installation and workarounds for hardware restrictions. :slight_smile:

And as people write, you need a new key… :slight_smile:

I think the W10 key works for W11 but all my keys that I could use at that time were W7. :slight_smile:

So I had to buy a key for W11 because I don’t have W10. :slight_smile: