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Have you checked AliExpress? They might have them there for even less than that.;)

Some people mentioned KMS volume license keys which require a corporate activation server. There are also MAK volume license keys that are activated with Microsoft activation servers. Years ago I bought a volume license copy of Windows 8 Pro. I activated it with a MAK key. When Windows 8.1 Pro...

That is what I found. I have an ASUS TUF Gaming (2022) laptop. It came with Windows 11 Home. I upgraded it to Windows 11 Pro. I had to send it in for repairs. They replaced the motherboard. When I got it back it said it needed to be activated. After I reentered the Windows 11 Pro key it received...

I haven't read though all the previous 418 posts on this thread so I don't know what the consensus is... Microsoft still wants you to install Windows 11 with a Microsoft account but as of July 10, 2022 you don't have to. I just installed two Windows 11 computers using Hyper-V Computer #1...

What is the history of HardForum? Has it been around continuously since its start? I first joined in 2005 and haven't logged in in a long time. I thought I had posted here a long time ago but find no history of that. Have old posts been purged or am I mistaken?

I have the following computer. MBD: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (1.0) CPU: AMD FX-8350 RAM: GSKILL Ripjaw-X DDR3-1600 8GB (2x4GB) GPU: ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1060 6GB DSK1: Samsung 870 EVO 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD DSK2: WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA HDD DSK3: WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA HDD It made a big difference when I...

I have Windows 7 64-bit on computers with 8GB RAM. They run well with CPUs with 4 cores. However, Windows 7 32-bit is a challenge with old single core CPUs with 2GB RAM. They are slow and only tolerable if I limit them to one program at a time. I expect a computer with only 1GB RAM will be slow...