If you purchased windows 10 online you may find the license key is included in an email that microsoft sent you at the time of purchase.
Windows 10 license check.
These methods will only work if you purchased a license in either physical or digital form from microsoft or if the computer you purchased came with the os installed.
If you assembly a desktop pc yourself or just bought a new laptop that has no operating system yet and want to install windows 10 you can use use retail license.
If however you received windows 10 as a free upgrade from 8 or 7 you will not find a license key.
Windows software licensing management tool slmgr vbs is a licensing tool to help configure licensing view status activation id in windows 10 8 7.
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Once you complete the steps your copy of windows 10 should be.
To view your windows 10 product key in the windows registry.
Get all the features of windows 10 home operating system plus remote desktop windows information protection bitlocker and a suite of tools designed for business use.
Depending on how you got your copy of windows 10 you ll need either a 25 character product key or a digital license to activate it.
Check under the license status section and make sure the status reads licensed to verify that windows 10 is fully activated.
Windows 10 license types.
Windows information protection requires either mobile device management or system center configuration manager to manage settings.
How to buy windows 10 with a valid or legit license key.
Press windows r to open run enter regedit to open registry editor.
Licensed for one pc or mac.
This is the type of license you get if you buy windows 10 from retail merchant or from microsoft.
Stored on windows registry.