Recent content by breadstickninja

My concern with doing this is that Microsoft reactivates windows from the device list in your Microsoft account - so if I remove the old device, I'd worry that I'd be removing the evidence that this is the same machine with a valid copy. (As opposed to, say, selling the old CPU and trying to use...

Thanks. They gave me a support number to call back but it's the U.S. number and won't be open until Monday. I'll try giving them another call - just super frustrated that I've already had to buy two copies of genuine windows for the same machine and it's telling me to buy a third.

Hi Folks, I rebuilt my PC back in November, and ended up buying a new Windows 10 copy directly from the Microsoft Store. It shows up in my order history that I bought this less than 6 months ago. Unfortunately, I had a bad mobo and it died last week. I changed it out for the same model and got...