![]() Like in the 90's some CDs with DRM wouldn't play in all players, or the DVD region codes. ![]() ![]() But the DRM industry (software, music, video) kind of had it coming since for regular paying buyers they make it really difficult, and pirating is easy. I will see when I built my next PC and that will be W11. There has been a lot less leniency recently. IF this indeed is not legit, it is MS responsibility to figure out. If it works and MS let's you activate, your conscience should be clear. You paid money (and not less than what a system integrator or manufacturer pays, probably more). I'm not too sophisticated with that stuff, and all I do is install Windows on a new PC, and use one of the 2 keys and it works and I assume it is up to MS to verify and block me IF they think it is wrong. You had to be a student to buy them, but there was no stipulation about after you finish school. I still use them on my PCs (now W10, and in the future W11). Many years ago as a student I bought 2 W7 licenses (one from the University store, one through an MS website program for students, it was called Spark for something). Like they rather have you use a pirated copy, than not using Windows. The biggest problem with those is if Microsoft already turned them off they still get sold anyway, so you wind up buying nothing at all. Also windows has a habit of just turning those off it the feel like it so you may boot up one day and have an unauthenticated machine and have to buy a new code. Good chance it was an OEM key which means it won’t be upgradable to 12. I'm super new to tech so was overthinking heaps on everything bad that could happen. Thank you all for your help! made me feel better about it. (i know in hindsight it was a stupid decision to buy the cheap activation key but I got too excited about the pc and didn't make the best decision) ![]() The key seems to have worked fine but I'm too scared to do anything further than that so have windows half-installed? I don't know if there is any way to do a clean install of the same windows on top of the half-installed one? Honestly really need advice on what to do as I don't want to go any further with the windows that has the pirated key! Being a student with not a lot of spare cash I saw one for $30 from what looked like a perfectly good website and opted for that, only after I put in the code in I realised that it was probably a price way too good to be true, so doing more research into the website I found out it was a pirated key. until it came it asked for the windows product key. So I've just finished building my pc installed the windows installation media without any issues. ![]()
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