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MisterEd · May 23, 2023

dave47 said:
Hi, yes it's KMS which accounts for the activation issue now that you have pointed it out. Do you think that it will be a problem? I mean it seems to be working without activation and the fact that it was originally on this machine from the manufacturer, I wonder if it matters at this time.

Where did you buy this laptop? Was it new or used?

I can't see any manufacturer put any kind of volume license software on a computer. However, I can see a third party have a contract with a company to purchase computers from the manufacturer and install volume license software on them. A large company would handle that in house. In any case the company would need to maintain a volume license activation server to handle the activation using KMS keys for all it software.

Like I said a small company that didn't have an activation server could still buy volume license software but use MAK keys instead. That way they could use one of Microsoft's volume license activation servers.

I have heard of online sellers sell volume license software with volume license KMS keys. To get around the activation problem they install a hack in the software to bypass the requirement for required activation server.

dave47 · May 24, 2023

MisterEd said:
Where did you buy this laptop? Was it new or used?

I can't see any manufacturer put any kind of volume license software on a computer. However, I can see a third party have a contract with a company to purchase computers from the manufacturer and install volume license software on them. A large company would handle that in house. In any case the company would need to maintain a volume license activation server to handle the activation using KMS keys for all it software.

Like I said a small company that didn't have an activation server could still buy volume license software but use MAK keys instead. That way they could use one of Microsoft's volume license activation servers.

I have heard of online sellers sell volume license software with volume license KMS keys. To get around the activation problem they install a hack in the software to bypass the requirement for required activation server.

I stand corrected, the laptop was used, ex business machine and as it was still under manufactures warranty I just assumed that it was a Dell install.