ray carter opined thusly:

On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 17:55:15 +0000, John Doe wrote:

Are we allowed to uninstall the Windows product key from our system so
that we can make hardware changes, and then reinstall that product key
without having to reactivate Windows (regardless of the changes we've
made)?

If so, any links to concise explanations about how to uninstall the
product key would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Totally insane - why should you need MS's permission to change hardware
on your own system!!

You don't. You merely have to re-activate the system with any "major"
hardware changes probably so that Bill Gates and the Board of Directors
can show videos of your weddings, baptisms and family reunions at their
sales meetings. Lord help ya' if ya'll make the sex tapes...

You'll know if it was a "major hardware change" when they give you the
series of blue screens with instructions and informations... Sometimes
they give you several days of grace to run the now rouge system before
they effectively shut down your device if you don't honor the prescribed
conditions.

They'll actually provide a toll-free telephone line with a real person to
assist with this. I believe that a change of mainboard or motherboard is
considered a whole 'nuther device, so you'd probably have to buy a product
key to get that situation activated... but it is negotiable, and as long
as all your hard drives, chipsets, processors and cards were still the
same, they might take pity on you and spare you the extra expense on a
one-time sympathetic consideration - especially if you tell them you're a
minority single-mother trying to put 8 kids through school and need the
device for homework assignments and your unregulated and untaxed eBay
business...

Or you could use the GoFundMe method.

HTH.

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