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How do I view on microsoft all the product keys linked to my account?

Anonymous
2021-08-02T02:29:46+00:00

Please don't try and guide me through looking for my key on my computer. I want to see them linked on Microsoft because it's useless to see it linked on my computer if I got a new computer. BTW, I have bought several RETAIL copies of Microsoft Windows for this very reason. It was always more expensive, but the Retail license would license me and not my computer, allowing me to move my copy of windows to the next computer. So, where can I find my linked keys?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-08-02T05:03:18+00:00

    Hi Tin Man. I'm Greg, a Volunteer Moderator and 10 years Windows MVP here to help you.

    If you bought Windows 10 retail licenses from Microsoft they were most likely Digital Licenses and not Product Keys. But if there were keys then they'd be in the Order History in your online MS Account here:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/402731...

    Windows 10 uses mostly Digital Licenses so that if you need to move a retail License it can be done fairly easily via the Activation Troubleshooter which is explained here:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20530/...

    If that method doesn't work by signing into the same MS account on the new hardware and running the Activation Troubleshooter to see if it finds the license and offers to move it, then you can contact Microsoft Support at https://support.microsoft.com/help/4051701/glob... or at https://support.microsoft.com/contactus choose Get Help, then Contact Us toward the bottom, then answer Yes you can Sign In, then Select Product: Windows, then tell the Issue, it should offer Messaging and/or a Call Back on week days.

    As long as you have the Order History information or Product Key then they will always honor moving the key to new hardware on a retail license.

    I hope this helps. Feel free to ask any questions. Based on the results you post back I may have other suggestions if necessary.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-08-02T06:23:18+00:00

    That is helpful, but I'm trying to solve a problem before getting there. That is, I'm getting a new computer and I know I had my copy of windows linked to my account, I'm trying to get the keys now so I don't have to contact support. Are you saying there is no place to find my keys on Microsoft's website? They have in the past for my copies of Microsoft Office, which btw, they didn't honor despite have activated my copy but I'm not going to get into that. Suffice it to say there is/was a page that I could go to and retrieve my Microsoft Office Product Key along with being able to download the appropriate version of office that matched it. In fact I can still do just that with my current version of Office SBE 2019. I can even see it on my list of purchases, just like you said. It says "Paid with redeem code" and that make sense since I didn't purchase it retail off Microsoft's website but got a key like and I had to download digitally like most software is done today. Same goes for my copy of windows, I purchased it, don't remember exactly where right now but I got a key and I distinctly remember downloading the Microsoft utility to download and make a usb installation. I installed Windows and it said it was linked to my account. So I imagine that Microsoft has it somewhere on my account on a page somewhere. They even list out the devices I have, so why is there a problem getting the installation key instead of having to jump though hoops after I install windows?

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-08-02T15:56:39+00:00

    Did you read my post? I explained that most Windows 10 licenses you buy from the Store are keyless Digital Licenses.

    I also told you exactly where to look for these licenses, the only possible place they would show up. Where is the report back on what you found there?

    If you had asked me before you wiped out your old install how to back up any keys, I could have showed you how to do this using a keyfinder tool that would pull up any OEM-BIOS key (from factory), generic Product Key used for Digital Licenses, Office Keys, and then after elminating all of those the one remaining would be the retail Product Key if there is one. But you said you'd already reinstalled and you only wanted the place to look in your account. So I gave you that exact answer and you apparently ignored it. It still remains the only answer.

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