In the wake of Microsoft's Windows 10 launch, a one-year grace period was provided for users to activate the system using Windows 7 or 8.1 keys. This functionality, intriguingly, persisted into ...

UnattendedWinstall is a PowerShell script created to streamline and optimize the Windows installation process. This open-source tool leverages Microsoft's own "Answer files" feature, a built-in ...

There's a lesser-known technique that's disconcertingly easy to activate almost any version of Windows and Office for life, all in less than a minute and without installing any software. This "magic" ...

If you are activating on a single device, and minimum devices have not been activated, it will not work. As an IT admin, you can use the SLMGR script to activate multiple computers.

A popular Windows 11 ToolBox script used to add the Google Play Store to the Android Subsystem has secretly infected users with malicious scripts, Chrome extensions, and potentially other malware.

It has never been too hard for someone with the right amount of time, desperation, or flexible scruples to get around Windows XP's activation scheme. And yet XP activation, the actual encrypted ...