Transfer Windows 10 license to a new laptop?

So I want to buy a laptop that is freedos and would like to transfer the Windows version / license from my old laptop, is that possible or do I have to buy new software?

If it is possible how do I do it?

Simply enter the key. Then no longer use the old laptop with Windows.

Not correct!

That should help you!

This will not work

Why shouldn't that work?

If you enter "Transfer Windows 10 license" on a search engine of your choice, you will find numerous instructions whether and how to do it.

If Windows 7 is installed on your old laptop and is not updated to Win10 and there's a sticker with a Windows 7 key, then it should work: install the appropriate version of Win10 on the new computer and enter the key.

If a computer with an existing Windows 7 license is updated to Windows 10, the license is bound to the device and you can no longer use it for another device.

This works if the old laptop has not been updated to Win10 …

Why should it work? If you could just activate Windows 10 with the same activation key on different computers, these keys would be relatively meaningless. The keys are compared online, once a single-user key has been used, you can only activate it with this Windows on the computer on which it was originally activated.

Why should it work?

Because since the introduction of activation up to Windows 7, it was also easy. Didn't know that Windows 10 changed something.

The "hardware binding" has ceased sometime since 1607.

Since then, if there are any problems with the activation, you have clicked on "I recently changed the hardware".

I think they even switched on the phone activation again, so you want to do that.

Manual deactivation also works, of course.

Just like using a Microsoft account.

In theory, this is so if you have a Microsoft account, your Windows Liezens is stored there. That means you just have to uninstall Windows on the old laptop (format hard drive) and install it on the new one.

With your new laptop you will be asked to authenticate your Windows Liezens this can be done either via the product key or via the Microsoft account. Microsoft will then complain that the Liezens is already being used on another computer, but you can then choose that the computer is no longer used.

But don't I have to pull Windows out of my computer somehow?

You need an installation medium (USB stick or DVD) that you can download from Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/...ndows10%20

The tool then creates the installation media. Please note, everything on the USB stick will be deleted, since only the Windows Setup will be available afterwards and you can boot from the stick.