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Originally Posted by DaFace
Na, I've done it that way on a half dozen laptops. They all show fully activated and have never gotten the prompt.
I don't really know why Microsoft still tries to pretend like the free period ended when they continue supporting the same process.
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Well Windows is hardware locked so if you used the Media Creation Tool on a computer that had a licensed copy of Windows installed it should automatically activate once it's installed. Now I'm not sure on anything related to upgrading from 7 or 8 but that's how it worked when I did a fresh install of 10 on my old computer. I built a new computer that never had a licensed copy ever installed and I'm using the ”trial” version with the watermark right now on it. I'll eventually license it but for now I'm just fine without it. There are tricks for customizing it outside of the control panel options so I've got it set up how I like and I just don't feel any rush to go spend money on Windows just to dump the watermark.