With Windows 10, Microsoft has made the activation process of the original copy much easier today, as it has never been in the past. Even the first version of Windows 10 had presented several critical issues enough to force us to write a specific guide on how to activate Windows 10 and solve product key errors that could not be recognized or lost, thus also preventing a trivial reinstallation of the system on the computer.
Things were fixed with the November update where the possibility of activating Windows 10 without a product key was introduced, using what Microsoft calls Digital License .
The Digital License is practically an automatic way of validating Windows 10 and making it genuine and recognized as a regular and non-pirated copy, which is applied in several specific cases.
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To find out if Windows 10 is installed with Digital License on your computer, open the Start menu, go to Settings> Update and security and then click Activation .
Next to the written Product Key you can read: " Windows is activated with a digital license linked to the Microsoft account ".
This means that you can install and reinstall Windows 10 (32 or 64 bit) as many times as you want on this computer without ever having to write the Product Key which, therefore, can also be ignored. The license is simply tied to the Microsoft account used for the PC user.
When during the installation of Windows 10 to buy the screen where to enter the code, you can click the button to skip the request. Once the installation is complete and the computer connects to the Internet, Windows 10 is automatically activated.
