How to Uninstall Product Key to Deactivate Windows 10 Published by Shawn Brink Category: Installation & Upgrade 20 Jan 2020 How to Uninstall Product Key to Deactivate Windows 10 Activation helps verify that your copy of Windows is genuine and hasn’t been used on more devices than the Microsoft Software License Terms allow. I cannot find a way to officially deactivate it so that I can activate on my new Win 10 machine. If I uninstall it from my old machine, does MS somehow know this and then make it possible to add to my new machine?

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Thanks. - - - Updated - - - If that doesn't work, is there somewhere I can purchase a legitimate activation key? My situation is that I ordered a new computer, and would like to deactivate my current one and use my current key on the new computer. Is this possible?

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Yes. It's a 1 computer licence so I need to properly deactivate from my current computer to transfer it to another computer, the procedure I am using right now is not working. How to Remove License / Product Key for Office 2019 / 2016 / 2013 | Password Recovery I am opening the administrator CMD then going to that address: No idea how Sophos works, so always make disk image and backup your Bitlocker recovery key before playing with TPM. Then you have two options: 1. Before doing reset, at admin prompt enter command to decrypt your drive & remove key protectors if any: manage-bde -off C: Uninstall/deactivate Sophos, restart, reset OS.

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2. Decrypt your data to external disk (must be at least equal size), recovery ... If you have a Win 10 Retail License, you CAN transfer the Product Key to another computer, as long as you DEACTIVATE the Product Key on the other computer. A Volume License is designed for large Businesses, Education, and Government. I'd like to sell it. So to keep win 10 on it but deactivate the product key they would just have to what buy a product key?

Deactivating key does not deactivate Windows. According to EULA, if you have an oem key, that cannot be transferred to new pc. If key is retail, you either sell pc with windows and key, or you keep key and wipe windows. Hey, thanks for the reply.