That's great to hear! But my Win10 install is always stuck. Left for hours, tried two times, same result.Yep. All that does is invoke the "refresh your PC"option Windows 8 also had.
That's great to hear! But my Win10 install is always stuck. Left for hours, tried two times, same result.Yep. All that does is invoke the "refresh your PC"option Windows 8 also had.
You could just partition the drive instead, which is usually faster than a virtual drive since the "host" partition can get fragmented.I'm quite surprised that nobody suggested to install to and boot Windows from a VHD or VHDX drive. This is good for people that doesn't have a spare drive to use and has lots of space on their existing drive.
Yeah that option is better However, many users usually don't leave their hard drive space "unallocated" and resizing the partition where the data resides in is risky, the virtual disk just seems saferYou could just partition the drive instead, which is usually faster than a virtual drive since the "host" partition can get fragmented.
So like a temporary virtual drive for a Windows 7 installation that's going to get cracked and upgraded to Windows 10 only to get a licence? If the main OS is already Windows 10 (unactivated), I wonder whether it gets automatically activated once the virtual drive is upgraded. Anyway I would reinstall Windows 10 in UEFI mode since legacy mode is required to crack Windows 7 (unless there's a crack that works in UEFI mode that persists during the upgrade).Yeah that option is better However, many users usually don't leave their hard drive space "unallocated" and resizing the partition where the data resides in is risky, the virtual disk just seems saferand aoption when one doesn't have another drive available, but have a large enough free space available for the existing drive, and plus just securing a legit license for Windows 10 for use in the future, then the virtual drive speed is pretty much negligible, because when they are good and ready to upgrade to Windows 10, they can install it clean without any OS on the drive anyway. AFAIK Windows does tries to save the fixed virtual drive on the most contagious free space chain, so by default it should have little to no fragmentation. With the virtual drive, you can get rid of the messy install within seconds, by deleting the virtual drive and keeping your host/primary OS intact.better
I have ran OS off the fixed virtual drive before and the speed while not as fast as native, but still usable.
Yes.So like a temporary virtual drive for a Windows 7 installation that's going to get cracked and upgraded to Windows 10 only to get a licence? If the main OS is already Windows 10 (unactivated), I wonder whether it gets automatically activated once the virtual drive is upgraded. Anyway I would reinstall Windows 10 in UEFI mode since legacy mode is required to crack Windows 7 (unless there's a crack that works in UEFI mode that persists during the upgrade).
No customizations? Wallpaper Engine says helloMicrosoft doesn't seem to care if people use pirated copies or not, just as long as they're using Windows 10 that's what appears to matter to them.
Heck, even the unactivated version is perfectly usable. Except, you can't customize it (not that big of a deal, anyway).
Never heard of it. Thanks.No customizations? Wallpaper Engine says hello
Seems legit.Cmon just buy a Win 10 license for 2-3$ on ebay - did it several times and works perfect and hasselfree.
If you use Windows 10 without owning a product key, even if you don't "crack" it, it's still piracy. The EULA requires you to have a valid licence.Never heard of it. Thanks.
If I ever reinstall W10 I'll give the unactivated version a chance over a pirated copy.
I mean, in the case of KMS emulation, or even OEM SLIC table activation, you're not breaking the EULA. You're not using an illegitimate activation method or key as these methods use Microsoft approved licenses that come from unique machine identities (HWID licensing; your product key comes from your hardware). Microsoft has done nothing to prevent either of these methods ever since Vista because they are integral to Windows licensing itself, so they only have themselves to blame for the piracy, but it's not like they really care anyway. If they did, it would be stupendously easy for them to blacklist every machine running an "illegitimate" copy of Windows.If you use Windows 10 without owning a product key, even if you don't "crack" it, it's still piracy. The EULA requires you to have a valid licence.
You can activate it later, which is useful when you're testing a lot of hardware, but you still need to own a licence.
Also, if you don't activate it, you'll get an annoying watermark, so if you're still going to pirate it (and you shouldn't), you may as well crack it because it's not any less legal.
Maybe not but you're still violating DMCA.I mean, in the case of KMS emulation, or even OEM SLIC table activation, you're not breaking the EULA. You're not using an illegitimate activation method or key as these methods use Microsoft approved licenses that come from unique machine identities (HWID licensing; your product key comes from your hardware). Microsoft has done nothing to prevent either of these methods ever since Vista because they are integral to Windows licensing itself, so they only have themselves to blame for the piracy, but it's not like they really care anyway. If they did, it would be stupendously easy for them to blacklist every machine running an "illegitimate" copy of Windows.
How? No data is being copied, reproduced, or duplicated. Again, the way KMS emulation and OEM SLIC activation work is by using serial numbers unique to your machine. They're loopholes in the licensing mechanism of Windows.Maybe not but you're still violating DMCA.
Circumventing copy protection is pretty vague but this certainly falls under that. Using unofficial means to fool something into running on hardware it's not supposed to is very much circumventing copy protection.How? No data is being copied, reproduced, or duplicated. Again, the way KMS emulation and OEM SLIC activation work is by using serial numbers unique to your machine. They're loopholes in the licensing mechanism of Windows.