If I deactivate my license what will happen to my PC?

Umaya40

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Nov 4, 2013
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So I am moving my W8 license to a new PC and removing it from this one, so I can use both PCs as I move from one to the other, this is easier because some steam games might not use the cloud or have a very annoying backup process that may not work 100% of the time (AAAA a reckless disregard for gravity) or I may want to check what that program was that I forgot to install etc.

Basically I want to know if my PC will become unusable or it will shut down after a few hours of use or it will completely lock or it will do nothing but give me pop-ups to get a new license.

And with this new MS account nonsense will I get my current PC to have license issues if MS detect I havn't got my license on my current PC and want to bug me about it?

And will unplugging my ethernet cable permenantly (until I am ready to format its hard drive) hide the fact its still used from MS?
 

Blaise170

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Deactivating your license won't do anything fancy. Windows will annoy you with popups and remove the background and replace it with a message that says it's not authentic but otherwise you can keep using it the way you want to.