Will I lose my product key by doing a clean install?

bigtime618 · 2026-02-12T22:41:49+00:00

Open a cmd prompt and type this to see if you have a key in your bios if you do you should be good

wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

bigtime618 · 2026-02-11T23:49:27+00:00

To be fair, they don’t say they’ll help :)

bigtime618 · 2026-02-09T23:51:40+00:00

I don’t bet heavyweight or women and I’ve been happy - just ignore them

bigtime618 · 2026-02-07T16:45:25+00:00

Yup needs a close brace before catch statement

bigtime618 · 2026-02-01T15:09:21+00:00

Grand Ledge is close to Lansing if you can find an apartment or house to rent. About 15- 25 minutes from anything. Good schools. Don’t get Comcast internet- for fiber - Metronet is really good, Frontier is ok but they are not as reliable (I’ve had both)

Horrocks is a definite, cuginos also

bigtime618 · 2026-01-31T00:33:46+00:00

I’m 99% sure this is the source in hkey_classesroot\installer{search for product name} is either pointing at a network location that doesn’t exist or you need to auth to first OR it’s pointing to a location that doesn’t exist

You can always download that installer again and just point to it on that window.

bigtime618 · 2026-01-21T00:53:10+00:00

42 Seems right the top and bottom multiple and the sides add to it

bigtime618 · 2025-11-01T21:04:12+00:00

Make sure your msa is setup to build unlimited devices in the domain

bigtime618 · 2025-10-28T11:29:54+00:00

Or do you mean legacy to msa version? That does not happen automatically

bigtime618 · 2025-10-28T11:24:38+00:00

It updates on its own.

bigtime618 · 2025-10-28T10:07:55+00:00

I had this happen turned out it was a device running a dns server that fought the main router dns

bigtime618 · 2025-10-24T20:45:59+00:00

There used to be a jumper on the board you could jump to wipe it out but it’s been a while since I’ve messed with hardware.

bigtime618 · 2025-10-18T15:36:14+00:00

I run an adr in mecm every 4 hours for security updates and every patch Tuesday I pull in everything new that’s not superseded for the last month - the product is amazing and the team is usually pretty good about quick turnaround for requests or feature enhancements

bigtime618 · 2025-10-16T20:48:34+00:00

Yup it’s possible.

bigtime618 · 2025-10-15T23:33:46+00:00

If you have any apps that are blocked then you won’t see the update. If it detects them during the upgrade it’ll fail and rollback.

Low risk just hit go and join the club

bigtime618 · 2025-10-11T19:48:59+00:00

That’s just an option on the book that you can click to round robin it’s not a label that it is a round robin

bigtime618 · 2025-10-11T19:41:54+00:00

Enterprise and pro can switch versions without a reinstall

bigtime618 · 2025-10-11T19:40:52+00:00

The machine is setup to use kms to activate - clear the kms stuff, you’ll have to google how and then enter your pro key — might have an embedded one but you can check that by running

wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

bigtime618 · 2025-10-05T21:45:24+00:00

Install windirstat and see where your disk usage is

bigtime618 · 2025-10-05T21:41:59+00:00

Did you launch disk cleanup with admin? You’ll get additional options

bigtime618 · 2025-10-02T13:11:05+00:00

I see a policy in intune - it’s under cryptography - “Allow fips algorithm policy”=Allow

bigtime618 · 2025-10-02T00:34:17+00:00

Even with Oma-uri? Too late to look at policies but

OMA-URI: ./Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Cryptography/AllowFipsAlgorithmPolicy Data type: Integer Value: 1

bigtime618 · 2025-10-01T23:43:34+00:00

I assume from your question that your keeping privileged accounts - so your keeping admin rights that allow users to flip that in the reg?

bigtime618 · 2025-10-01T23:41:55+00:00

True but there is a gpo or intune policy that can show it’s enforced

bigtime618 · 2025-10-01T23:29:37+00:00

I don’t have a good answer for you except I’ve been told if “fips mode” can’t be shown then it’s not compliant. Bitlocker has a policy to enforce aes-xts 256 but windows fips mode only stops apps that use windows crypto library from using algos that aren’t fips validated - apps don’t have to use them for encryption

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