Microsoft’s website lists the following information about finding the Windows product key for Windows 10: There is an option to change the product key in the Settings, but there is no such thing to show the active Windows 10 product key. It turns out there is no easy answer to find this out.

This guide works for both Windows 11 and Windows 10.Windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft accountīut what is my Windows 10 product key? How to find out the currently installed license key of my Windows 10 installation? Where to find Windows 10 key? Maybe you want to backup the Windows 10 key just in case? Guide: Move a Digital Linked License to a New Computer Also, learn to check if and how Windows is activated. More info about types of Windows licenses is found in this other article. I didn’t want to lose my retail Windows license, so I plan on buying a simple OEM key for the old Dell laptop, but for that to happen I need to move the retail license first. It’s something that did come in handy recently, as I’ve bought a new ASUS laptop and needed to activate Windows. I’ve detailed the entire “adventure” in the article linked above if you want to read it.Īt this point, I wondered if it’s possible to move a digital license stored in your Microsoft account to another computer. I suspect that was the moment the actual key got disconnected from the digital license but was still stored on my local machine, for backup.

That’s of course not correct, but the two PCs once activated were linked to my online Microsoft account, and showed up as digital linked. For example, I was recently surprised to discover that according to Microsoft two of my computers were using the same license key.

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