Windows OS allows you to conveniently and effectively use countless applications and useful utilities. It makes it possible to quickly exchange data with other users via the Internet, as well as regularly update the system to a new version. At the moment, Windows is considered the most popular OS in the world, so users often have questions about its work. To begin with, it is worth the system to be reliably protected from cyber threats of various levels of complexity. At the next stage, the question arises, how to check the activation of Windows and not waste money?
If you buy a fresh key from a store, there is always a concern that it may turn out to be unlicensed. In this case, the user should run the system update and make sure that it works correctly. There are many different ways you can find on the net how to check the activation key on Windows. In this article, we will tell you about the simplest and most understandable options.
What should be done to check the activation of Windows?
Once you have entered a fresh key in the appropriate field, follow these steps:
- download the free program ProduKey from its official website to avoid viruses or installing malware, in the list of systems, select your version of Windows and in the line "Product Key" you will see 25 characters divided into 5 groups (their presence indicates that your system activated and licensed);
- an easier way is to open “My Computer” and call up the context menu by right-clicking, then click on the word “Properties” (at the bottom it should say “Windows is activated” if you entered a really existing key);
- another available way is to press Win + R and enter "slmgr.vbs-xpr", after which you will see an information window with a lot of text (almost at the end it will be written about the status of the license, which will inform you about the activation status of Windows).
Where can you safely buy a fresh key?
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FPP
- FPP (Full Product Package), Retail, Box or boxed version, in earlier versions up to XP an optical disk, later a USB flash drive with Windows installation files.
- ESD (Electronic Software Delivery) or E-key, electronic key. You buy an electronic key on the Microsoft website and download the distribution kit of the system to install it on your computer. also download the necessary documents from the manufacturer's website.
- OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) is the most limited type of license in terms of use. Installed on new PCs, laptops, tablets and other computer devices, when buying a computer device complete with it, it is tied to the device to a specific hardware configuration.
- Starting from the Xp version and ending with Windows 7, this can be done on the Microsoft website. It is not possible to check new versions of products that were released after Windows 7 on the website. They are checked by themselves and if your copy of Windows is not licensed, then you will be shown a message on your desktop (your copy of Windows does not have a license key, is not under license), perhaps your version was activated, but the activation failed due to the error.
- How does activation occur when switching from an earlier version of OS to Windows 10. If you have a legacy version of Windows tied to a specific oem device, as we said earlier. Then when you update the OS to Windows 10 on Microsoft servers, your account is overwritten in which there is a device identifier, key, version of the OS. Such an update was at the time of the release of Windows 10.
- Windows 10 license can be viewed by typing winver in the command line and pressing enter. If the version is not activated, then you will not receive data on this version. Otherwise, in the opposite case, you will see a message as in the picture below:
- You can also check the authenticity of your version of Windows after 7 by pressing the Win + X key combination and in the menu that opens, click "System"
- In the window that opens, the system at the very bottom looks at how the activation proceeds:
- Highlighted with the arrow in the picture above that Windows activation is complete. If there are problems with the activation of the operating system, you will be shown a message:
- In other versions of Windows, starting after 7, there will be similar messages in the same window.
- The command in the command line will help to determine the type of operating system, first press the key combination:
- Win + R
- In the "Run" window that opens, type "CMD" and press "Enter". When the command line opens, type:
- slmgr.vbs / dli
- Confirm by pressing "Enter", who does not know how to work with the command line can read. There is also a great article on this,. You can read the article
- Let's return to the license view and after confirming the entered command to the command line with the "Enter" key, you will see a window with information:
- Check Windows xp and Win7 - Authentication checks if your key is locked.
- View all Windows license options and questions.
- Well, in fact, if you follow the methods used above, then the mouse will not slip through, say, reactivate and everything will become clear. Only do it using the command line and not different activators! Well, if you want a software that is in service with you you know where, and without divulging secrets the name Defacto. If this name does not tell you anything, then you can go to the site, everything is told there. I’ll show you how to use this program, because what it is for is clear. Defacto can detect not only Windows for pirated copies, but also other paid software. The program connects to the product activation servers and checks whether the product is activated or not, thereby recognizing the pirated version or the real one. Here's an example of a message about signs of pirated copies on a pc:
- In general, the program looks like this, picture below. There are three options to start the scan, I think everything is clear with them, but I will expand on them:
- 1.) Scan this PC. It is clear that all installed programs on the running PC will be scanned for license violations.
- 2.) Scan directory. Select the folder that the program will scan and if it finds programs in it, it will notify you about it.
- 3.) Scan network computers. Computers in a local network in the office or at home if you have a local network configured, you can scan all computers in the local network from one computer.
- See the picture below:
- At the bottom of the program in the footer, let's say there is information on the selected program after scanning, there is also information on icons. Let's say the license is violated or free software. See the picture below:
- Well, there is simply nothing incomprehensible in this program, as I initially told you that it exists. The program is paid, but there is a free trial period to learn about several computers is enough. If you have any questions, ask in the comment below or search the site by clicking on the button below.
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Methods for verifying the license of the Windows operating system on the Microsoft website:
How to find out pirated Windows or licensed, real, junk?
Almost a month has passed since the start of the free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to Windows 10. Under the terms of Microsoft, users of these operating systems, after the upgrade, receive licensed Windows 10, and the system is activated automatically in the background. How to understand if your copy of Windows 10 is activated or not?
When upgrading to Windows 10, the system should automatically activate the OS on Microsoft's activation servers. The problem is that the user is not shown information windows about the successful activation of the OS. There are several ways to check the system activation status in Windows 10.
1. System properties window
Press the keyboard shortcut Win + X and select the item System... The activation status is displayed in the Windows activation section. In our example, the message “” indicates that the system is activated.
2. New system settings panel
The activation status can also be found in the parameters of the new Modern Control Panel. To do this, click on the notification icon in the lower right corner of the taskbar and select the menu item All Settings.
Then go to the section “ Update and Security”. As you can see, the status in the line Activation indicates that the system is activated.
3. Command line
Activation status can also be obtained from the command line using a script SLMgr.vbs which has been used to manage licenses, activations and system serial keys since the days of Window Vista. Open a command prompt (cmd) with administrator rights and run the command:
After a few seconds, a window will appear with the text “ The machine is permanently activated” .
Advice... If you need to display information about the activation status in the command line console, use the following command: cscript slmgr.vbs -xpr
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How to check activation of windows 2008 or windows 7?
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Question: How to check the activation of windows 2008 or windows 7? Answer: Start -> Run -> write cmd (a black command line window opens) -> write slmgr -dli After a couple of seconds, a window will appear in which the activation expiration date will be written
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19 Jul 2011 | Author: anchous |It's no secret that all versions of the Windows 7 and Windows Vista operating systems require activation. Until the activation is required, the user can use this system for 30 days (which can be increased up to 120 days) in a trial version of the operating system, with occasional reminders that this system needs to be activated. If the system is not activated on time, then it becomes inoperable, and you have to boot in a safe mode.
Actually, in order not to mess up the moment when activation is required, and in order to be sure that you have an activated copy of windows, the activation status can be checked again on all versions of Windows, both 7 and Vista.
1. The first method is the simplest and is done in a couple of mouse clicks: Start -> right-click in Computer -> Properties -> at the very bottom, the activation status and product code are written.
2. Method using SLMgr.vbs - a script inserted in windows 7 and Vista and used to manage licenses, activations and serials. Since this script is a console command, press Win + R -> write cmd and press ENTER. After that, in the appeared DOS-Promt, enter one of the commands: slmgr -xpr slmgr -dli
As a result, we get the following window telling us that our Windows is activated.
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Checking the activation status of windows 10
Almost a month has passed since the start of the free upgrade for users of windows 7 and windows 8.1 to windows 10. According to Microsoft's terms, users of these operating systems, after the update, receive licensed windows 10, and the system is activated automatically in the background. How to understand if your copy of windows 10 is activated or not?
When upgrading to windows 10, the system should automatically activate the OS on Microsoft's activation servers. The problem is that the user is not shown information windows about the successful activation of the OS. There are several ways to check the system activation status in windows 10.
1. System properties window
Press the Win + X keyboard shortcut and select System. The activation status is displayed in the windows activation section. In our example, the message "windows is activated" means that the system is activated.
2. New system settings panel
The activation status can also be found in the parameters of the new Modern Control Panel. To do this, click on the notification icon in the lower right corner of the taskbar and select the All Settings menu item.
Then go to the “Update and Security” section. As you can see, the status in the Activation line indicates that the system is activated.
3. Command line
Activation status can also be obtained from the command line using the SLMgr.vbs script, which has been used to manage licenses, activations and system serial keys since the days of Window Vista. Open a command prompt (cmd) with administrator rights and run the command:
After a few seconds, a window will appear with the text “The machine is permanently activated”.
Hi friends. How to find out if the licensed Windows is installed on the computer? The answer to this question is obvious to you if you bought a new PC, laptop or tablet with an activated Home edition in some respectable hardware store. Or if you purchased. But how to check if the license is real, if it was bought in an OEM-, boxed version or in the form of the same electronic key in some online store? Or if we bought a computer device on the secondary market, and the buyer promised us that he was selling along with the most genuine Windows?Let's try to understand this issue and of course I will give you some examples from my practice when I was able to prove to my clients that the activated system installed on their computer was not licensed.
How to find out if licensed Windows is installed on a computer
Friends, I strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with it first. This is a complex and twisting topic, Microsoft has thrown a lot of wilds in it, but we still tried to present it as simple and understandable as possible. So, deception can lie not only in the fact of the authenticity of the OS keys, but also in the type of licenses (in particular, free trial), to which these keys give access. So you need to have at least a basic understanding of the types of Windows licenses.
Unactivated, pirated and licensed Windows
OS from Microsoft in the context of its activation can be conditionally divided into three types:
- Non-activated;
- Activated pirate;
- Activated licensed.
Unactivated Windows- it is limited to certain features of the OS. In Win7, this is a black desktop and psychoactive notifications that we have become a victim of software counterfeiting. In Win8.1, this is the inability to choose a color for the start screen and an activation window that appears every 4 hours. In Win10, this is the blocking of all personalization settings. A universal way for all versions to find out whether the system is activated or not is the control panel. Press Win + Pause on the keyboard and look at the "Windows Activation" column. If there is activation, we will see it.
If there is no activation, then this is.
Or this, if Win7 is used within a monthly trial period.
An activated system will be the same regardless of the activation method - pirated or legal.
Activated pirated Windows externally and functionally, it does not differ in any way from a legally activated system. If, of course, we are talking about a system installed from a clean distribution, and a separate activation stage using, for example, a KMS activator.
If a third-party assembly of Windows is initially supplied activated, it can interfere with the functionality - something is cut, something is disabled, something (including malicious) is installed. About all the pros and cons of pirated assemblies. Disadvantages of pirated activation:
It can fly off periodically;
Files and processes of the activator are blocked by antiviruses;
Its detection by the competent authorities will lead to bringing to responsibility - civil, administrative or even criminal. As well as, we read the practice of courts on the website of the court decisions of the Russian Federation. We go to the site http: //judicial decisions.rf. And in the field "Document text" we enter a key request, for example, "Windows KMS".
- Note: I especially recommend reading the court practice in cases of copyright infringement of developers at your leisure to all those "smart guys" who insult those who have chosen the path of using paid licensed software in the comments of the site.
Activated licensed Windows Is a legitimate way to use it, which will give us peace of mind at night. And do not be afraid of any inspections by the competent authorities if we use the system for our individual entrepreneur or head any structural unit of the company.
So, genuine and pirated Windows are outwardly and functionally indistinguishable in no way. How to understand which one we are dealing with?
Windows Authenticity Labels
You can find out whether licensed Windows is installed by looking at the authenticity stickers on the computer device. What are these stickers? This is:
Certificate of Authenticity (COA) - a sticker on the PC case, on the bottom of the laptop or inside its battery compartment, as well as inside the latter on Surface tablets;
GML Sticker - A hologram sticker with changing colors depending on the viewing angle, introduced since September 2017, the gluing locations are the same as for the COA.
If the license key was purchased separately from the device, by purchasing a boxed version of Windows - an installation DVD or a USB flash drive, the authenticity stickers must be on their packaging, respectively. For boxed versions, the same types of stickers are used,
as for the case of the devices - the certificate of authenticity (COA) and holograms.
How to find out if Windows is licensed using the command line
If the seller of a used computer swears by oath that he is selling it with licensed Windows, if a new device is bought in a store with a reputation hitherto unknown to us, the fact of the authenticity of the OS can be verified by asking to enter something into the command line. We run it as administrator. And we enter:
slmgr –ato
If the activation is pirated, in the window that appears in the script we will see something like this message.
Or something like this message.
But if the system is genuine, we will see the inscription "Activation completed successfully" in the script.
In addition to the direct inscription about activation in the script window, it is also important to pay attention to the Windows edition. If the title of the editorial office has an addendum "Eval", for example, "EnterpriseSEval", there is, alas, little use for such an authenticity of activation.
How to find out if Windows is licensed using the task scheduler or how pirated activators work
It should be noted that the latest operating systems from Microsoft (Windows 8.1, 10) have a fairly strong protection mechanism against activation by pirated means and at the moment there are only a few activators capable of activating the above OS, the most famous is KMSAuto Net. But it works very simply and is easily found in the system. KMSAuto Net creates a folder at the address: C: \ ProgramData \ KMSAutoS and places its files in it.
To constantly reactivate the OS, he is also forced to create his own task in the scheduler.
Once, a friend brought me a laptop with installed and activated Windows 10
and asked if a licensed system was installed on it. I stupidly opened the command line and entered the command already familiar to you: slmgr –ato, the result was very eloquent.
Then I opened the scheduler and showed my friend the task created byKMSAuto Net. The questions disappeared by themselves.
How to check Windows 7 for authenticity
If you are faced with the task of determining the authenticity of Windows 7, then first of all look at the sticker with the license key on the PC case or on the bottom of the laptop, if there is none, then the task becomes much more complicated, since this OS has a weak protection mechanism against activation by pirated tools ... If you ask this question on the official Microsoft website, then you will be advised to install the KB971033 update, created specifically for OS authentication, but for example, this update is installed on this PC,
and the system is activated by a pirate activator and I will prove it to you a little later.
You may also be advised to enter the command line: slmgr.vbs / dli, but the message "License status: licensed" does not prove anything.
Also at the office. Microsoft website will advise you to download the tool MGADiag.exe,
In the "Licensing" window you can see the partial product key - 7TP9F and "License status: licensed".
But the key YKHFT-KW986-GK4PY-FDWYH-7TP9F can be on Win 7 installed on Acer laptops, but not in any way on Win 7 installed on a regular desktop computer,
he constantly comes across to me on pirate sevens. This key installs a pirated activation program for Windows 7 Loader by DaZ Activator or Windows7 ULoader 8.0.0.0.
The real license key will not be "googled" at all, since information about it should not be available on the Internet.
Evaluation Windows
Evaluation Windows - offered on the Microsoft Evaluation Center in Win10 Enterprise editions and available to test for 90 days free of charge - are perfectly legal systems. You can also add the trial Win8.1 Enterprise to them, it is no longer available for download on the Evaluation Center website, but it can be found on the net, in particular,. And, of course, the activation legality check team will show that everything is in order with them. But this order will be temporary.
Evaluation builds are activated for 90 days with a temporary Evalution license activation key. If such an assembly will stand on the computers of the company's system administrators, there is no need to be afraid of any checks by the competent authorities. Everything is legal here. As well as completely legal, because there is no direct prohibition, after 90 days you can cancel the Evalution license and use the system for another 90 days. And then another and another 90 days (activation is reset only three times). Well, then you can reinstall the system. Evaluation editions are the optimal solution for those who still reinstall the OS at least once a year. It is illegal if we are not an IT employee of the company and will use such an Evaluation build for commerce or leisure. But this solution is definitely better than pirated activation - both in technical terms and in terms of legal liability.
So, there is nothing wrong with evaluation Evalution editions if they are not trying to sell them to us as a full-fledged system with a perpetual license. In addition to the method shown in the previous paragraph of the article, you can also identify the Evalution edition by the watermark in the lower right corner of the screen with an inscription in the form of a countdown to the end of the 90-day period. But such inscriptions are very easily removed by the type software. We can make sure that we are dealing with an Evalution license and see the number of days remaining until the end of the 90-day period using the same command line. We run it as administrator. We enter:
slmgr.vbs / dli
And we look at the information.
Documents on Windows
What documents prove the authenticity of a Windows product key? Proof of legitimate use of the OS is:
An email from the vendor of the electronic key - Microsoft itself or an online store. This letter specifically states the key. The system must also be activated by him;
Sales receipts, invoices, acceptance certificates and similar documents from OEM suppliers for OEM devices. Without these documents, there will be a violation of Microsoft's licensing procedures in terms of non-compliance with the terms of use of the OEM license.
So, friends, buying decommissioned and plundered OEM computers by employees of companies, as well as purchasing cheap OEM keys on eBay, is not the best solution. It is undoubtedly better than KMS activators and Windows Evalution assemblies, but not a panacea for problems from the inspection authorities.
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