Help with W10

[Geo]

Serves me right I know
Bought a cheap refurb Optiplex SFF Pc to stick under workshop bench in the shed to save running in and out the house when info is needed
Cant do with Phone due to fat finger syndrome Any Hoo
Good little spec for the price £100 usually circa £200 to £240 on fle-bay
Good bits
i7 quad core 3000
8 gig ram
2TB HDD
Bad bits
Micky mouse W10 PRO installed wont activate with any keys the seller has to offer
with numerous/various reasons displayed
1 wrong key
2 the previous OP system was not activated
3You are trying to activate W10 Home with a W10 PRO key
W10 PRO is clearly installed on this machine
Cheapest way out of this pickle please anyone recommend a solution recommend any safe downloads with working key

 

[cbrookson]

Couldn't possible recommend it (as it is dodgy), but you can get a key from EBay. They come and go very quickly, but you can get them for less than £4.

They are usually Corporate or similar bulk keys, but do work ....

Cheers

 

[Linda and Steph]

You don’t need to activate W10.

Although you won’t be able to get support from Microsoft, you will be able to install 3rd party software and anti-virus programs.

 

[Gellyneck]

Serves me right I know
Bought a cheap refurb Optiplex SFF Pc to stick under workshop bench in the shed to save running in and out the house when info is needed
Cant do with Phone due to fat finger syndrome Any Hoo
Good little spec for the price £100 usually circa £200 to £240 on fle-bay
Good bits
i7 quad core 3000
8 gig ram
2TB HDD
Bad bits
Micky mouse W10 PRO installed wont activate with any keys the seller has to offer
with numerous/various reasons displayed
1 wrong key
2 the previous OP system was not activated
3You are trying to activate W10 Home with a W10 PRO key
W10 PRO is clearly installed on this machine
Cheapest way out of this pickle please anyone recommend a solution recommend any safe downloads with working key

If you want to go down the pukka route and get a genuine Windows 10 Home installation https://store.computeractive.co.uk/p36880-windows_10_home
If you want Pro version https://store.computeractive.co.uk/p36873-windows_10_professional
Note : the Home version is an OEM version and can only be installed on the original pc whereas the Pro version can be installed \ uninstalled on original and then transferred to a later pc. I would go for the Pro to get this flexibility.

 

[Geo]

Thanks
Realistic prices too have you bought from these people?

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[Minxy]

Have you considered installing Linux instead as it doesn't cost anything and many people say its good as an alternative to W10.

 

[Geo]

You don’t need to activate W10.

Although you won’t be able to get support from Microsoft, you will be able to install 3rd party software and anti-virus programs.

Interestingly this pc is refusing to let me make many alterations a d petrsonalisations
Flashing a message you must activate windows.
Your right it allows plenty but not it would appear fine tunning

 

[Geo]

Have you considered installing Linux instead as it doesn't cost anything and many people say its good as an alternative to W10.

Life long windy fan dont want to have to learn a d maybe replace other software to work in linus
But might put it on a partition to play with
Thank you

 

[Linda and Steph]

Interestingly this pc is refusing to let me make many alterations a d petrsonalisations
Flashing a message you must activate windows.
Your right it allows plenty but not it would appear fine tunning

Have a quick look here to see if it makes sense.

You Don't Need a Product Key to Install and Use Windows 10

You probably should get a Windows key, though,

www.howtogeek.com

 

[Geo]

Have a quick look here to see if it makes sense.

You Don't Need a Product Key to Install and Use Windows 10

You probably should get a Windows key, though,

www.howtogeek.com

Yes makes perfect sense but would drive me mad trying to work out if it's not doing something because it's not registered or I'm doing it wrong.
Thanks for the suggestion
Must work as intended for me

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[Gellyneck]

Thanks
Realistic prices too have you bought from these people?

If that question was for me Geo, yes. Three copies of Pro a few months ago when first offered.
Computeractive is one of the main UK published computer magazines and is part of Dennis Publishing (<Broken link removed>). I've a fortnightly subscription.

If the shed computer is only going to be used for web browsing you could look at installing a Linux distro on it for free. A good few Funsters have \ use Linux Mint.

 

[Geo]

Gone with the W10 Pro from your link.
Downloaded the iOS file and key for a fresh install.
Simple and straight forward, install Sat wish me luck
Thanks again

 

[Gellyneck]

Gone with the W10 Pro from your link.
Downloaded the iOS file and key for a fresh install.
Simple and straight forward, install Sat wish me luck
Thanks again

Never had a problem installing 10 Pro (probably around 15-20 machines) so assuming all the hardware is working correctly it should go well.
Let us know how you get on.

 

[Geo]

Up and running,
Clicked install from iOS a d a message said you have all the major components installed let's update and make them legal........insert licence key...4 mins start to finish, fastest painless install since Win 3.1 lol

 

[Gellyneck]

Up and running,
Clicked install from iOS a d a message said you have all the major components installed let's update and make them legal........insert licence key...4 mins start to finish, fastest painless install since Win 3.1 lol

That's great. You just need to sort out what software you want to run on it now!

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[Geo]

Software no problem.
First time I've come across what seemed to be an intelligent pc that was resisting all forms of micky mouse attempts to activate.
I guess the guy I bought from had run out of tricks or patience.
I'm not at all advers to paying for software but baulk at being asked for £219.00 from Microsoft for what is a ailable at the price you demonstrated.
I think if Microsoft dropped their price to £40 there would be very few fake copies.
And they would be twice as rich as they are.

 

[Gellyneck]

First time I've come across what seemed to be an intelligent pc that was resisting all forms of micky mouse attempts to activate.

If you ever have to reinstall Win10 on it you probably won't have to insert the code again (assuming connected to internet) as MS identifies the machine and automatically activates it.