Updated: July 13, 2020 (September 27, 2004)

Manually Entering Product Key for Validation

Michael analyzed and wrote about Microsoft's operating systems, including the Windows client OS, as well as compliance and governance. Michael... more

Customers whose versions of Windows are not automatically validated will have to enter their product key, as shown in this illustration

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