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  • January 1, 2019 at 9:39 pm #29578
    SpedleySpedley
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      I bought a cheap PC off ebay with no HDD.  Fitted a 240GB SSD and installed Windows only for it to auto detect the motherboard and activate as Windows 10 Pro.  Nice!

      Looking for a low profile GT 1030 with DDR5 now to go in it but quite surprised at how good the on-board HD4600 graphics are!

      i7 4790s / 8GB / 480GB SSD / GTX 980 / 34" UltraWide : i3 4170 / 8GB / 480GB SSD / GTX 770 / 24" Samsung : i3 4130 / 8GB / 500GB Spinner / GTX 1050 / 23" Acer : Q9550 / 8GB / 1TB Spinner / GTX 580 / 22" Acer : i7 720QM / 8GB / 1TB+2TB+500GB Spinners (server) : i5 4570 / 8GB / 60GB SSD / 1TB / GeForce 210 / 22" Dell It's getting warm in here!

      January 2, 2019 at 2:34 pm #29595
      Wheels-Of-FireWheels-Of-Fire
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        MS are a lot less strict with their activation than they used to be. If a motherboard and CPU combination has been registered for a version of W10 then it will probably stay registered forever.

        It was not always so. I had a full retail version of XP on my Pentium 3 PC and decided to add a Blue Tooth dongle. After installing the driver Windows informed me that I was now using a totally different computer and that I would have to phone up for activation !

        The lady at Microsoft told me that installing the Blue Tooth protocol stack for the dongle was considered a hardware change but seeing as I had the retail version of XP she would reactivate me just this once ?

        January 2, 2019 at 5:22 pm #29598
        Dave RiceDave Rice
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          Things are a lot more relaxed since Ballmer went, can you imagine Office for Android in his day?

          They’ve realised that they don’t hold all the cards any more. Look at the phone disaster and the inroads Chromebooks have made in the academic world. A whole new generation being brought up without a bit of Microsoft software in sight.

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