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Comment on You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2.

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PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

To be fair, nobody actually NEEDS to deal with this nonsense. Windows works just fine without an activated key, literally the only downside is the “Please activate Windows” bug on your desktop. That’s it, everything else works fine.

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HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not exactly, can’t customize it either or change certain settings. I know this because I just built a new PC and the key I had didn’t work for 2 days while I had support figure it out.

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- Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, but nothing that prevents you from using your computer.
  
  Customisation is just aesthetics
  
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  - HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Absolutely, it’s not the worst. I had a client who had me rebuild their work pc for them and the key they gave me didn’t work. They never ended up bothering getting it to work since it was a work pc and didn’t really care if they could change the background or theme. This was Win 10, I think 11 has a few more settings locked out but it’s not bad really.
    
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vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t think system wide dark theme works without a key, although there are workarounds of course.

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- The_Mixer_Dude@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It does on 11
  
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