Hello, simple question.
It used to be that you could run the slmgr tool and a little box would pop up saying which channel your license came from, but in November Microsoft pushed out an update that changed the way some licenses look like (such as upgraded ones) and so they look like they came from a retail channel when really the are OEM and don't have the same properties. That got me badly yesterday and many hours were wasted.
Now that this is the case, is there a way to figure out what a license is reliably?
To note:
I have a few old mobos and Im trying to see if I tied a retail license to them sometime in the past so I can transfer it to a new motherboard just so I don't pay for Windows. I mean, hey if I have a retail one why should I pay again?
It used to be that you could run the slmgr tool and a little box would pop up saying which channel your license came from, but in November Microsoft pushed out an update that changed the way some licenses look like (such as upgraded ones) and so they look like they came from a retail channel when really the are OEM and don't have the same properties. That got me badly yesterday and many hours were wasted.
Now that this is the case, is there a way to figure out what a license is reliably?
To note:
I have a few old mobos and Im trying to see if I tied a retail license to them sometime in the past so I can transfer it to a new motherboard just so I don't pay for Windows. I mean, hey if I have a retail one why should I pay again?