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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 - MEGATHREAD
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well if you plan with dino he goin to ban you
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@TrK right now:
Much needed missed the puzzle 🧩
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RIGGED
Let's roll over to the next person, thanks!
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You're next, @nick_, should you choose to accept
Let's up the Ante a bit...
How about 1 / 5?
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O yeah.
If you activate it once and sync it to your MS account you should be good.
@DP You're gonna end up keeping it yourself at this rate.
In the end, it was the dinosaur that accepted it.😉
I think that's true for non-OEM versions, but pretty sure OEM versions rely on a key somewhere. It might just be the UUID, it's hard to find definitive answers for obvious reasons.
Lol
What happened?
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That's alright
Or just terminate it.
Did not win from the giveaway!
Lol!!!!
This is just hilarious 😂
Afaik (and that's not much seeing as I'm not a Windows user), it's the/a key in the UEFI for OEM.
/edit: apparently, and I assume you've found out the same, you can get the key with this line:
Or ill take it...
Nah.just kiddin
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The one I found when googling OEM keys was
wmic csproduct get UUIDwhich matches Linux'sdmidecode -s system-uuidCould very easily be a combination of both and also the various mobo strings in there too.
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