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Re:Komodia SSL certificates are in many products by netheril96 on Friday February 20, 2015 @03:08AM (#9079471)
Don't know why you are downvoted. Before I switched to Mac (now I know what a good choice I made!), I find that installing fresh Windows without piracy is incredibly hard. The so called OEM embedded serial key works only sometime; Other times, the fresh Windows will ask me to buy and activate it. Utterly confusing even for a techie like me.

So I installed a pirated Windows.

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Re:Komodia SSL certificates are in many products by bigbugbag on Friday February 20, 2015 @03:34AM (#9079527)
Dealing with the windows tax crap is hardly news, buying new overpriced hardware to benefit from a golden prison is neither an acceptable solution for somewhat facing the issue nor what a techie would do.

The easy option is to phone microsoft support and explain the problem, you most probably will be given a new valid key. Other options for techies includes using OEM install medium or installing a free software OS.

Nowadays there's no licence key to type anymore, it's included in the hardware sold with windows 8 (which is worse).

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