Blunt Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 Long story short, helping a friend who replaced the MOBO, CPU & GPU all at once and Windows says sorry it's a new PC and no longer registered. He didn't do the preregistration steps at MS before hand. So my thoughts were to just buy a key online. kinguin keeps coming up as a trusted reseller, from what I understand they give buyer protection if the sub vendor scams you. Question is, anybody ever use kinguin or some other source to get a discounted Win Key? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arneke123 Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 HI, I used before Kinguin and G2A to buy Microsoft Windows Licenses without any troubles. But be aware that there is always a chance you get scammed, but If you see the seller has a rating of 99%+ I would assume it is a good bet 😄 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zicx01 Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 Heyo! Like @arneke123said G2A isnt a bad place to get windows keys, theres a bunch of different sites out there that sell them as well, if ya look in the right spots you can find them for pretty cheap! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outlaw23 Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 I highly, highly recommend G2A. In-fact, I've used G2A to buy Windows keys, Microsoft Office, and much more. 100% reliable & safe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gengis Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Why dont you buy a Win 11 key ? AFAIK it works fine. Gengis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunt Posted July 5, 2023 Author Share Posted July 5, 2023 As it turns out he found the original license for Win10, it was a student discount version, it let him re-register again with the new hardware. @Gengis I learned this, you cannot use a Win 11 key on a Win 10 product. However, a regular Win 10 Key can be used to upgrade to Win 11. The machine still has a TPM issue, likely a BIOS upgrade would help, but could involve searching for non compliant drivers. That is a task for another day. He at least has an upgrade path to Win11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gengis Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 @blunt You are right. I forgot you ned W10 to upgrade to W11. About TPM, check the options in your BIOS. TPM is a standard since 2018. So you may have only to turn it on like i did on my own PC. Gengis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leatherface Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 (edited) 47 minutes ago, Gengis said: @blunt You are right. I forgot you ned W10 to upgrade to W11. About TPM, check the options in your BIOS. TPM is a standard since 2018. So you may have only to turn it on like i did on my own PC. Gengis To upgrade to win 11, you cpu should be gen 8+, otherwize rufus can do it ?? Edited July 6, 2023 by Leatherface 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gengis Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 8 hours ago, Leatherface said: To upgrade to win 11, you cpu should be gen 8+, otherwize rufus can do it ?? I would say any gen will work as long as it has TPM 2.0. It is not enabled by default. I used UEFI BIOS to enable it. Gengis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlitfaceJR Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 TPM 2.0 is only available on 8th Gen Intel core CPUs onward. however, there is a solution to bypass the TPM requirement which you need to modify a reg key in windows 10 and tricking it to think it's a lab computer setup to test windows 11 on older hardware. there may be other solutions but it is one I know. if you meet the requirement for Windows 11, which is listed on Google, you can install it if it's your wish, EVEN if you don't have a TPM 2.0 compatible CPU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leatherface Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 RUFUS 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlitfaceJR Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 it is one thing, I agree I just don't use/trust rufus because it can't create a Linux live USB right like it should, if it works for bypassing TPM, then go with rufus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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