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Windows 10: like windows 8.1 is linked to your hardware and as such is coded into windows itself.

There is no easy way to find your code. A reinstall, as long as there are no major hardware change will activate automatically.

If you head to the Microsoft windows 10 media creator download you can download an ISO or USB windows install media for recovery or reinstall.

 

Windows checks with MS servers during activation to see if your PC is a known windows 10 device and activates if all is correct.

There are software apps out there that claim to recover your product code but I'm unsure if they work with Windows 10 yet

cheers i have the usb version put by safely for the future ,although the cpu is slow its an octo version and 16gb of memory

should be fine for a while yet so hopefully no major changes are in mind

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

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Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

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my installation went fine this morning.....all OK until I went to edit some word docs. Wouldn't let me save them as I need Admin permission. I am admin (says so on the pc) but still not working. More of a problem is that docs are now saved as read only even though I have ticked the boxes and the properties shows them as not read only.

 

Even worse problems with video playback, inconsistent to put it mildly! Media player says they are in a not supported format...they are, some in different formats, but all played ok before "upgrade". I have one saved in MOV format which plays sometimes (?) most of them in AVC or MP4, all supported by windows media according to the list.

 

I suspect it is to do with the fresh installation required after win 10 of my AMD software.

 

My brain is now hurting so I will give it a rest for tonight,

 

just tried youtube and only getting sound !

 

 

Den

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mmmm think i will give this a miss TBH.!

"La conclusión es que los insultos sólo perjudican cuando vienen de alguien que respeto". e5006689.gif

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Having activated a microsoft account whilst messing about with Cortana I now have to sign on to it each time I power on. Is there any way of stopping this as SWMBO is getting more than a little hacked off

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its a new OS...there will be bugs for the next few months at least

 

I believe there is a years grace to upgrade mate ? Best wait until the bugs etc seem to be ironed out methinks.

"La conclusión es que los insultos sólo perjudican cuando vienen de alguien que respeto". e5006689.gif

“Vescere bracis meis”

 

 

 

 

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Having activated a microsoft account whilst messing about with Cortana I now have to sign on to it each time I power on. Is there any way of stopping this as SWMBO is getting more than a little hacked off

I think you can revert to a local account ,i quite like the microsoft one it means you can sync other microsoft stuff to look the same ,a bit like google and android stuff

 

I did though do a fair bit of denying so the snooping should be less in the back ground ,in the guts of most software you either have a default of snoop or a way of denying it ,rather than helping you in your 'experience' its just them getting knowledge for getting paid adverts or flogging your data down the line ,hard to avoid nowadays

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Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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yeah there's a year of free upgrade-ability there. after that its paid. you can buy it now as well if you want it on other devices etc currently going for £99

 

Thanks, think i will give it time to sort the bugs out. :hammer:

"La conclusión es que los insultos sólo perjudican cuando vienen de alguien que respeto". e5006689.gif

“Vescere bracis meis”

 

 

 

 

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I really only use my PC for videos and photos which I take myself, or youtube (a lot) and Word. Sorted the word problem out, you have to save in to One drive/documents, at least Wife can get back to her accounts etc, still can't edit and save the original word docs though.

 

YouTube playing up still mostly only getting sound if anything, not sure this is MS problem though.

 

PC now asks if I want to allow my Sony playmemories to "make changes" to my PC...bloody annoying as it has worked faultlessly for years through several updates.

 

I will give it a week or so and then go back to Win7, only problem there is that I will have to reinstall quite a lot of stuff, and may end up worse off.

 

 

 

Tried loading some new pics and videos via my sony playmemories and they all play back seamlessly! and some of the old stuff MP4 will play on Quicktime with a struggle. Maybe the Windows media player will sort itself out soon, as I used it to play all my stuff.

 

 

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"When through the woods and forest glades I wanderAnd hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur,And hear the brook, and feel the breeze;and see the waves crash on the shore,Then sings my soul..................

for all you Spodders. https://youtu.be/XYxsY-FbSic

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