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I recently installed Windows 10 with a legal download of the Iso file. When I open settings, there is a link to a setting labeled, "Windows isn't activated. Activate windows now." But if I try to enter my product key there, it says some of these characters can't appear in the product key. I have found out that the 015 AEIOU LNSZ characters can't be used, but on my other working computer, that is the listed product key. How can I fix this?

Ranger
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What Windows shows you in the control panel is the product ID, which is a hashed value generated from, among other things, your hardware configuration.

The product KEY is what you want, and that's hidden in the registry.

A free tool that can accomplish this is ProduKey

Karu
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