[Guide] How to get genuine windows 10 ISO and why?

[UserU]

The key is valid, but AFAIK company, university, etc. aren't supposed to sell those keys since it's meant for internal usage. But the good thing is i never heard Microsoft never remove/invalidate those keys due to such abuse.

I see, so they're kinda like the Office 365 subscription things where they sell in the masses.

I used to buy one, until I got locked out of it (wrong password). But that's another story.

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[TheBeardedBaby]

The not activated Windows 10 have some limitations, like for example you can't change any settings under personalization like color theme, wallpaper, lock screen settings, etc.  You can't change your profile picture nor sync your settings to an another device. There were some reports about sound settings limitations as well. It's not the best solution but still free.
What I noticed when I had to upgrade some laptops to windows 10 back in the day was that all the laptops after the upgrade had the same Windows license key. That was quite weird for me but I haven't checked it further.

[Pmalek]

The not activated Windows 10 have some limitations, like for example you can't change any settings under personalization like color theme, wallpaper, lock screen settings, etc.  You can't change your profile picture nor sync your settings to an another device.

All those settings are not that important really and still better than to use an outdated OS like Windows 7, if you prefer to stick with Windows OSs. What is important are the security and stability updates you will get. Whether or not the user is concerned with the impact Windows 10 has on privacy is another topic.

There were some reports about sound settings limitations as well. It's not the best solution but still free.

This is new, I haven't heard of this before. What kind of sound limitations are we talking about?

[bakasabo]

Anyone have an experience using Windows 10 keys, that are bought from Digital goods  ? Will I have any problems if I get a key from there ?

[Thekool1s]

TBH @iasenko, I have almost never cared for the personalization features. Never been into customization my desktops etc. I like to keep things vanilla on windows especially. Just like what @Pmalek said they are non-essential but I have never heard anything about sound limitation or experienced something like it while using a non-activated version... I will look into tho.

@bakasabo I bought a key from @Fakhoury along time ago and it still works... Tho keep in mind MSDN keys can stop working anytime, if the licence isn't renewed by the seller or they get banned from Microsoft. I paid like 5 Bucks I think for it back then. I do recommend getting an OEM key as it isn't linked with any kind of renewal on Seller's end. It is locked for a single machine tho. So whatever does the trick for you go for it...

[TheBeardedBaby]

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There were some reports about sound settings limitations as well. It's not the best solution but still free.

This is new, I haven't heard of this before. What kind of sound limitations are we talking about?

I read it sometime ago but seems like I can't find the link, I don't really remember where I read it but it was about if you have a few sound devices connected at the same time, some sort of the settings were not acceable due to the not activated windows 10. If I remember correctly it was a Miracast thread, I had some issues with the Miracast back then and while reading other people problems, came across a post about the sound setting and the not activated windows. I'll try to look it back again.

[Kakmakr]

Your thread deserve the merit point I gave it.    Many of my friends have tried upgrading it directly and it failed because their Internet bandwidth is very slow. A lot of them got hold of a pirated version and they think those are save to use, because they pirated previous versions of Windows and they had no problems.  

Now, I can download the official ISO from Microsoft for them and give them a cheap option to make it legit. Thank you for this information.  

I already told them that they will have issues with Electrum and Windows 7 + Chrome, but they are stubborn and want to risk it. In a way I want to leave them to learn from their mistakes, but on the other hand I do not want them to lose money.  

Some of them bought second hand notebooks with a separate partition with the OS for recovery, but they did not receive any legit activation code for the operating system. I helped them to get the activation code from the OS that was installed.