How to locate and view the license of your copy of Windows in a few clicks and without third-party applications
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There may be times when we needed to know the license of the copy of Windows that is installed on your computer. Something that can especially happen when the computer we buy comes with Windows pre-installed and we do not have a box or a physical document that shows us the license. However, it is very easy to know with two tools that are included with the operating system
In this article we are going to teach you how you can locate and know the license that corresponds to the copy of Windows that is installed on your computer or tablet.A process that only requires following a few simple steps. And it is that obtaining our Windows license will allow us to obtain a backup copy if necessary.
Windows license always at hand
Without having to use third-party applications, to know the license of our copy of Windows we will only have to use the PowerShell tool>"
The first thing we are going to need is to access the Windows tool PowerShell or the Power symbol system and for this the easiest way is to locate it using the search box in the lower left area of the Taskbar."
Both tools provide us with access to the Windows command prompt. And for this tutorial we will see how you can use both PowerShell>"
Once inside any of them, you have to write the following command and be careful, it's long (61 characters with spaces) , so we recommend that you make a copy and paste to avoid skipping any letters and not working. The specific instruction is wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey
What this command does is ask our PC to show the Windows license key on our computer directly from the console command. The result is immediate and when entering this command we will see how the key of our version of Windows is shown on the screen.This is a string of numbers made up of 25 digits separated by hyphens.
But why do we need the Windows license? It can be useful in the case of wanting to reinstall Windows on our computer if we want to perform a clean installation, especially when we have changed the hard drive on our computer and thus being able to activate the copy of Windows 10, but also if we are going to change some identifying components of the equipment.
Activating the copy of Windows 10 will make us not have to be seeing continuous messages warning us to activate our Windows and above all that we have full access to all the options to customize the system.And once we know the license, it is important to copy the key somewhere safe.
