Windows 10 [2014 - 2017]

I'm not sure that is true. Did you try activating one of those w7 keys on a w7 system? If it's reported invalid, does the phone system reset your key?

The problem is you are trying to active in a way w10 wasn't designed to due to poor decision making on MS' part.

Your w7 key isn't converted to a w10 key so that is enter you have to upgrade again from w7 after changing your mainboard. This doesn't have anything to do with MS not allowing hardware changes, because they do, it's just that with the way w10 currently checks your license status you need to upgrade from w7.

Anyway as written in the post above it looks like this will change with the November update.
Im

 

i no longer have w7 key

btw microsoft is breaching their own W10 EULA by refusing my reactivation request. they should honor my "transfer" request.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/OEM/Windows/10/UseTerms_OEM_Windows_10_English.htm

, the eula specfically says i can transfer license.

and in the agreement, the exception permitted the kind of transfer i need.

even weirder, microsoft do have re-activation method inplace using their Store. I click "Go to Store" instead of "change key". Store will open and says "click here to be genuine"

i click, but it stuck on "your device will be genuine shortly..."

It seems from the windows and store perspective, i should be allowed to reactivate. But from their licensing server, i am not allowed to reactivate. Result = windows stuck on "your device will be genuine shortly..."


EDIT
lesson learned,

1. if something does not broken, dont fix it (w7 was working fine, but i upgrade to 10)
2. dont believe what the company says for DRM. i must remind myself to stop going digital on PS4 (already full digital on PS Vita, bummer...), and must remember to put no-steam crack on my steam games.
3. always take picture of serial/key and automatically put that shit on Bittorrent Sync.

I dont want to get fucked by digital DRM anymore.

EDIT:
i think problem solved, i found a theory that might work

 

Holy shit that's great news.

 

Psh, november? I'm expecting january at the earliest at the rate they're going right now...

 

CCleaner can uninstall Windows 10 apps now

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/10/27/ccleaner-can-uninstall-windows-10-apps-now/

 

I guess CCleaner can actually be useful now.

 

On my new fresh Win10, the lock screen uselessly appears whenever I've been away from the PC for a while, and I'm not sure why it does this or where the setting controlling this behavior (if there indeed is one) is; my original install didn't do this.

Anyone have a clue and can chime in...?

 

I believe thats part of the Power settings.

 

I just wont to point, a lot of D3D8 fullscreen games do not work anymore due the compositor changes. Hopefully the November updates (which will finalize the new compositor) will fix this ,_,

 

Microsoft Finally Agrees to Provide Info on Windows 10 Updates

http://news.softpedia.com/news/micr...ovide-info-on-windows-10-updates-495574.shtml

 

Dege of DGVoodoo2 is working on a workaround for that. I wouldn't count on MS fixing it.....

 

Is there a Wine on Windows still?

 

Rome Total War (1) does not work with voodoo hacks. Fortunately, on some games is still possible to force the (border-less) window mode.

 

I have this bug on my tablet. Hopefully the next big service pack will fix this. No idea whats causing it but its ignoring the settings. Tried the sign in options, power settings, screensaver settings etc.

 

DGVoodoo2 is actually now also a D3D 3-7 emulator/wrapper and he is going to add D3D 8 in the future. So it can't help you yet but it probably will eventually. There is a readme included with it that has a lot of details about the D3D efforts. It's really quite amazing and he is very active on VOGONS with people testing his program.

I used it with Emperor Battle for Dune last week and the game runs much better in Win10 this way. Most of the pre-D3D9 games I've tried in Win8/10 need some kind of wrapper to run well.

 

Cool, I may have to look into this. Unfortunately I don't think it'll help me play some of the old CD protection games (that used securom and the like) that I want to replay like old LOTR based RTS games (can't remember what they are called and they are in my closet). When I last tried on Windows 7, they wouldn't even install. And unfortunately, many of those old games that I have on CD/DVD don't have and likely won't get a digital release.

Regards,
SB

 

Windows 7 32bit might be compatible with the DRM or some of it. It can run drivers for 2000 and XP (I don't know about Windows 8 and 10 32bit)

 

I don't know who is ultimately at fault here, windows 10 or AMD display driver, but after re-installing win10 my screen doesn't want to power up from sleep mode when trying to wake it. I have to toggle the power switch instead, and when I do I end up at the lock screen (making me think it's windows' fault, somehow not passing on input messages properly to the relevant destination so the screen can get woken up). Sometimes I get a small window from catalyst driver notifying me of displayport link error, telling me the highest resolutions and refresh rates can't be used, even though it's clearly showing 1440P@60... Sometimes I get the same window and the screen knocked down to 800*600 or somesuch. Toggling the monitor power button at that stage knocks the screen rez down to 640*480... D'OH!

To fix, I must pull the displayport cable and re-connect it (no, the cable is just fine btw...) This is getting a bit tiresome, so I've switched back to crappy ole dual-link DVI for now to see if anything improves; I have a Samsung cable I got with the display (S27A850D) which isn't overly thick and unwieldy, but on the other hand it's fairly short instead...

 

PC makers have a year left to sell new Windows 7 machines.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/3/9662770/microsoft-end-of-sales-windows-7-pcs

 

I have the same issue on my Nvidia 970 with display port and sleep. Was perfectly fine on windows 7.