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That was quick…

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It’s MS. They couldn’t secure a cup of coffee.

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You have to hand it to mocrospft though in the console department, xbox generally dont have software hacks to jailbreak consoles historically (generally hard mods), but nintendo and sonys OS is usually riddled with exploits.

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I’m surprised this is still on github.

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What do you mean, Microsoft support still needs it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-support-cracks-windows-for-customer-after-activation-fails/

Wouldn’t be surprised if they made the pull request themself.

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yeah at this point with all the ads, bloatware and telemetry, windows costing money is the real scam

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Will this convert a home edition to pro?

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Previous version did. Converted a friend’s laptop from home (oem provided) to pro and my own from home (oem provided) to enterprise

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It does, pretty easily. There’s a convenient “change Windows edition” menu item.

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yes if you upgrade to pro with a generic key first

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thank you Im a noob sort if, can you let me know how I go finding a generic key.

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Take a look at https://massgrave.dev/hwid.html. It’s linked on the site OP linked.

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Just press 7 extra. There is option for changing windows edition.

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Doubt it, but it could aid you once you’ve acquired a windows pro installer. ;)

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Good to see them fix this so quickly, but what’s stopping Microsoft from blocking HWID activations on a GVLK? After all, those keys would normally be activated through a KMS instead of Microsoft, so it’s clearly abnormal behaviour

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uuuuh I hope i didnt fuck myself and my PC up doing this then!

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Oh no, you’re all good, it’s just that this may not work for new people trying this soon. If you activated already, then it should stick until you change your computer’s motherboard

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What does this do?

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Activates your Windows installation with a legit activation method, you can even reinstall Windows and have it pre-activated because the activation is on your hardware ID.

It takes a free upgrade routine, but Microsoft stopped free upgrades from Windows 7 to 11, so apparently there is another way now.

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