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Most PCs come without Windows installation media and instead rely on a restore partition (keylogger included). If you try to install off random other media (e.g
by tga 9y ago
Most PCs come without Windows installation media and instead rely on a restore partition (keylogger included). If you try to install off random other media (e.g. MSDN), it will not recognize the OEM license that comes with the computer.
Because of this, there is no trivial way (edit: OK, without buying Windows again) to get a vanilla install including only the Microsoft keylogger, but not the HP one.
- dragonwriter 9y agoThere's a trivial way, it's just not zero added cost if your PC was bundled with Windows: buy a retail version of Windows.
- pnutjam 9y agoNot true, you can reinstall the same version and it will pick up the licensing from the BIOS. You can even extract the key from the BIOS to use on a VM (same hardware) if your running linux. It's even very easy to get the install media direct from Windows, not like back in XP days. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...
- tga 9y agoThanks, this used to be an issue at least Windows 8. I'm happily surprised if it's now as easy as downloading the ISO from Microsoft and reinstalling it on an OEM machine.