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What do you think of this method to get Windows 10 for free?
https://youtu.be/YvONuPGOuGY
So according to the videographer, all you need to do to get Windows 10 for free (and legally) is to never activate Windows 10! I had always thought Windows 10 would stop working after something like 30 days if you didn't activate it? He says it doesn't, and it there's only a few minor personalization options that stop working if you don't activate it. Yousuf Khan -- Sent from Giganews on Thunderbird on my Toshiba laptop |
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What do you think of this method to get Windows 10 for free?
On 06/12/2017 06:03 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
https://youtu.be/YvONuPGOuGY So according to the videographer, all you need to do to get Windows 10 for free (and legally) is to never activate Windows 10! I had always thought Windows 10 would stop working after something like 30 days if you didn't activate it? He says it doesn't, and it there's only a few minor personalization options that stop working if you don't activate it. Yousuf Khan "minor", I tried to adjust a few things on a fresh reload once and I ran into that wall several times. I thought it was a horrible roadblock. But that's me, and no, I don't remember the specifics, I just activated it. I had turned off the wireless to stop updates till I could make a few adjustments, but gave it up. |
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What do you think of this method to get Windows 10 for free?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:09:04 -0400,
Big Al wrote: So according to the videographer, all you need to do to get Windows 10 for free (and legally) is to never activate Windows 10! I had always thought Windows 10 would stop working after something like 30 days if you didn't activate it? He says it doesn't, and it there's only a few minor personalization options that stop working if you don't activate it. Yousuf Khan "minor", I tried to adjust a few things on a fresh reload once and I ran into that wall several times. I thought it was a horrible roadblock. But that's me, and no, I don't remember the specifics, I just activated it. I had turned off the wireless to stop updates till I could make a few adjustments, but gave it up. I have a related question. I already have Windows 10, but I just (finally) got VirtualBox to work with ubuntu 64-bit, which means I can now run any 64-bit operating system INSIDE of Windows 10. Would this 30-day "windows 10 for free" work INSIDE the VirtualBox VM? That is, I can take another machine, that is NOT Windows 10, and run VirtualBox on it, and then, start my very own Windows 10 inside the VM? Would that work, to get Windows 10 for free? Or is there a catch? |
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What do you think of this method to get Windows 10 for free?
Mad Roger wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:09:04 -0400, Big Al wrote: So according to the videographer, all you need to do to get Windows 10 for free (and legally) is to never activate Windows 10! I had always thought Windows 10 would stop working after something like 30 days if you didn't activate it? He says it doesn't, and it there's only a few minor personalization options that stop working if you don't activate it. Yousuf Khan "minor", I tried to adjust a few things on a fresh reload once and I ran into that wall several times. I thought it was a horrible roadblock. But that's me, and no, I don't remember the specifics, I just activated it. I had turned off the wireless to stop updates till I could make a few adjustments, but gave it up. I have a related question. I already have Windows 10, but I just (finally) got VirtualBox to work with ubuntu 64-bit, which means I can now run any 64-bit operating system INSIDE of Windows 10. Would this 30-day "windows 10 for free" work INSIDE the VirtualBox VM? That is, I can take another machine, that is NOT Windows 10, and run VirtualBox on it, and then, start my very own Windows 10 inside the VM? Would that work, to get Windows 10 for free? Or is there a catch? You can run Win10 inside Win10 (with VirtualBox at least). I cannot say what happens to the activation though. Run it for 30 days and so. Or rather, install it, then boot it on day 31 and see how it behaves. Using slmgr /dlv you might get some idea of the activation state. Paul |
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What do you think of this method to get Windows 10 for free?
Yousuf Khan wrote:
https://youtu.be/YvONuPGOuGY So according to the videographer, all you need to do to get Windows 10 for free (and legally) is to never activate Windows 10! I had always thought Windows 10 would stop working after something like 30 days if you didn't activate it? He says it doesn't, and it there's only a few minor personalization options that stop working if you don't activate it. https://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you...se-windows-10/ "It¢ll keep working for the foreseeable future." Well, that's until whenever Microsoft decides to flip the switch on their license server that enforces the client to honor thresholds on non-licensed copies. If that happens, you'll be scrambling to amass the money to buy a license. If you're using your PC for games, yeah, no big deal to wait until you have the money. If you using it for work or school, the interruption could be aggravating to costly. No one really knows Microsoft's plans. I'm not sure Microsoft knows, either. |
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What do you think of this method to get Windows 10 for free?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 22:32:29 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote: https://youtu.be/YvONuPGOuGY So according to the videographer, all you need to do to get Windows 10 for free (and legally) is to never activate Windows 10! I had always thought Windows 10 would stop working after something like 30 days if you didn't activate it? He says it doesn't, and it there's only a few minor personalization options that stop working if you don't activate it. https://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you...ey-to-install- and-use-windows-10/ "Itʼll keep working for the foreseeable future." Well, that's until whenever Microsoft decides to flip the switch on their license server that enforces the client to honor thresholds on non-licensed copies. If that happens, you'll be scrambling to amass the money to buy a license. If you're using your PC for games, yeah, no big deal to wait until you have the money. If you using it for work or school, the interruption could be aggravating to costly. No one really knows Microsoft's plans. I'm not sure Microsoft knows, either. If you're using a sketchy copy of Windows for work or school your doing it wrong. A work machine should NEVER have a non activated copy of Windows. That's just common sense. If it's for school the same applies. Most systems geared toward school work are OEM based anyway so that should be a non issue. |
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