enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Microsoft Product Activation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Product_Activation

    On Windows 10 and Windows 11, the activation process can also generate a "digital entitlement", which allows the operating system's hardware and license status to be saved to the activation servers, so that the operating system's license can automatically be restored after a clean installation without the need to enter a product key.

  3. Product key - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_key

    Product key on a Proof of License Certificate of Authenticity for Windows Vista Home Premium. A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program. It certifies that the copy of the program is original. Product keys consist of a series of numbers and/or letters.

  4. Product activation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_activation

    Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary software programs. Product activation prevents unlimited free use of copied or replicated software. Unactivated software refuses to fully function until it determines whether it is authorized to fully function. Activation allows the software to stop blocking its use.

  5. Windows Registry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry

    The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt to use the registry. . The kernel, device drivers, services, Security Accounts Manager, and user interfaces can all use the regis

  6. System Locked Pre-installation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Locked_Pre-installation

    System Locked Pre-installation (SLP), also referred to as OEM Activation, is a product activation procedure for Microsoft Windows used by major OEMs of laptops and pre-built PCs wherein a Windows product key is added and locked to the machine's firmware before mass distribution. SLP product keys cannot be moved to other machines.

  7. Registry cleaner - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registry_cleaner

    A poorly designed Registry cleaner may not be equipped to know for sure whether a key is still being used by Windows or what detrimental effects removing it may have. This may lead to loss of functionality and/or system instability, [3] [4] [5] As well as application compatibility updates from Microsoft to block problematic Registry cleaners. [6]

  8. Software cracking - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_cracking

    Software crack illustration. Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software ...

  9. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10

    Shortly after the suit was reported on by the Seattle Times, Microsoft confirmed it was updating the GWX software once again to add more explicit options for opting out of a free Windows 10 upgrade; [364] [365] [362] the final notification was a full-screen pop-up window notifying users of the impending end of the free upgrade offer, and ...