How to Use Your Free Windows 10 License After Changing Your PC’s Hardware

[Batu69]

The free Windows 10 license you receive is tied to your PC’s hardware. You’re still allowed to use Windows 10 on that same PC even after changing its hardware, but that may not be clear. Microsoft won’t give you a product key.

Microsoft really doesn’t want to explain how the activation process works. It doesn’t want to give pirates too much information, but that does make the licensing process confusing for legitimate users, too.

How Windows Licenses and Activation Usually Work

[steven36]

Basically its just like having a OEM key . so if you use it instead of your retail win 8.1 or 7 retail key it can just be used on one pc they one its activated on . Were retail keys can be transferred.