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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.
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK), formerly Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK or WAIK), is a collection of tools and technologies produced by Microsoft designed to help deploy Microsoft Windows operating system images to target computers or to a virtual hard disk image in VHD format.
Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is a set of tools based on Windows PE to help diagnose and recover from serious errors which may be preventing Windows from booting successfully. Windows RE is installed alongside Windows Vista and later, and may be booted from hard disks, optical media (such as an operating system installation disc) and PXE ...
Orca (Part of Windows SDK) Microsoft: Active Freeware (proprietary) Yes; exclusively Wise: Wise Solutions, Inc. Discontinued Non-free No WiX: Outercurve Foundation: Active Ms-RL (previously CPL) Yes; exclusively Yes No
The bundling of Microsoft Windows is the installation of Microsoft Windows in computers before their purchase. Microsoft encourages original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of personal computers to include Windows licenses, OEM softwares and OEM drivers with their products, and agreements between Microsoft and OEMs have undergone antitrust scrutiny.
Pre-installed software (also known as bundled software) [1] is software already installed and licensed on a computer or smartphone bought from an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). [2] The operating system is usually factory-installed, but because it is a general requirement, this term is used for additional software apart from the bare ...
Windows Sysinternals supplies users with numerous free utilities, most of which are being actively developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, [7] such as Process Explorer, an advanced version of Windows Task Manager, [8] Autoruns, which Windows Sysinternals claims is the most advanced manager of startup applications, [9] RootkitRevealer, a rootkit detection utility, [10] Contig ...
On Windows 10, a sister program to Upgrade Assistant known as "Media Creation Tool" was introduced, which is used to download the Windows OS files and generate ISO images or USB boot media. [7] In January 2024, Microsoft began to replace Windows Setup on the Windows 11 boot media with a revamped version based on the UI of Upgrade Assistant ...