[Software] How to activate Windows 10

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In this guide we will talk about how to activate Windows 10 on any computer in a legal way, leaving out any type of activators, cracks, CMD or Powershell commands, and ultimately, any other way to bypass the Windows activation system, but taking into account anyway, the different ways that Microsoft offers us to activate our operating system quickly, easily and completely legally.

Also, we will not go into some more rudimentary ways, such as calling Microsoft support, because it is a system with personalized attention that mainly works for previous versions of Windows, so that the user experience of each person can vary individually.

Activate Windows 10 with an activation key
The most traditional thing about Windows 10 activation is to use an activation key that allows us to validate that our Windows installation is legitimate, so that we will have to acquire a Windows 10 license for the version that we want to install and make use of the key 25 character product code that will be provided to us.

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This can be done both during the installation of Windows, where a window will ask us for the product key, and after installing Windows, accessing the Start menu, Settings, Update and security, and finally in Activation, where we will be asked for the key to finally activate Windows.

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In the case of reinstalling Windows on a computer that we have bought with the system pre-installed, although it may be that the activation key has remained as a license associated with the hardware, as we will see later, the usual thing is to find a sticker attached to the box of the equipment or enter the documentation received with the purchase of the same that reveals to us which is the key.

How to activate Windows 10 by logging in
One of the most common ways we have to activate a Windows installation is by logging in, as long as we had linked our email account to a particular Windows 10 key, something we would do by entering the key for the first time in the Windows 10 installation , and later by logging in with our Microsoft account in the Activation section of the Windows Settings panel.

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This will allow us that, even without putting the activation key in the installation wizard for whatever reason, mainly for convenience, even if it is usually because we do not have the key at hand, later we can activate Windows 10 without having to use a key, but simply verifying our identity with the login.

Activate Windows 10 with a hardware-associated license
A common alternative for all those users who do not want to log in with their Microsoft account in Windows 10 for whatever reasons is something that already came with Windows 8, and is the use of UEFI to store the Windows activation

In this case, this type of activation is useful to us when reinstalling Windows for some reason, and that is, if we initially enter a Windows 10 activation key when installing the operating system, we can avoid the step of looking for and entering the password again, skipping the window that asks us for the Windows activation key during the installation of the operating system.

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Once we finish the installation and connect to the Internet, Windows will verify the activation key stored in the UEFI, so that we can think of this type of digital license as a license that is anchored to the motherboard of the computer.

Buy a Windows 10 license through the Microsoft Store
It may be the case that we simply do not have a license with which to activate Windows 10, so that both in the Microsoft support documentation and in the Activation tab in Windows Settings we are offered the option to buy a license in the shop.

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This process will allow us to use the newly purchased Windows 10 license in the version that we have chosen, and especially, it will allow us to do so after having had the opportunity to test if the version of Windows that we have installed meets our needs, for example, There are exclusive features of certain versions of Windows 10, as has been the case in previous versions of Windows 10, but unlike them, we can continue to use the computer without activating the system with some restrictions.