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<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="overview">Overview<ahref="#overview"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Overview"title="Direct link to Overview"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li>How to use it? Please find the instructions <ahref="/#download--how-to-use-it">here</a>.</li>
<li>This activation method supports Windows 10/11 only.</li>
<li>This activation method does not store or modify any files in your system.</li>
<li>This activation method gives you permanent Windows activation for your system hardware.</li>
<li>All activations can be linked to a Microsoft account without any issues.</li>
<li>Once the system is activated, this activation cannot be removed because the license is stored in the Microsoft servers and not in the user's system. MS checks the hardware ID (HWID) and if a license is found in their database, the system will automatically activate. This is how official digital license works.</li>
<li>Any significant changes to the hardware (such as a motherboard) may deactivate the system. It is possible to reactivate a system that was deactivated because of significant hardware changes, IF your activation, was linked to an online Microsoft account.</li>
<li>For activation to succeed, internet connectivity must be enabled. If you are trying to activate without these conditions being met, then the system will auto-activate later when the conditions are met.</li>
<li>The following is required for Windows to reactivate itself after Windows reinstall:<!---->
<ul>
<li>The internet is required. (Only at the time of activation)</li>
<li>The system will auto-activate only if Retail (Consumer) media was used for installing Windows.</li>
<li>The system will NOT auto-activate if VL (Business) media was used for the installation. In this case, the user will have to insert the generic Retail/OEM key corresponding to the Windows edition currently running to activate if the user doesn't want to use the script again. (Those keys can be found below on this page)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="hwid-history">HWID History<ahref="#hwid-history"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to HWID History"title="Direct link to HWID History"></a></h2>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="how-does-it-work">How does it work?<ahref="#how-does-it-work"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to How does it work?"title="Direct link to How does it work?"></a></h2>
<h4class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="hwid-1-now-defunct-summer-of-2018---sep-26-2023">HWID 1 (Now defunct) (Summer of 2018 - Sep 26 2023)<ahref="#hwid-1-now-defunct-summer-of-2018---sep-26-2023"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to HWID 1 (Now defunct) (Summer of 2018 - Sep 26 2023)"title="Direct link to HWID 1 (Now defunct) (Summer of 2018 - Sep 26 2023)"></a></h4>
<ul>
<li>In the official upgrade process from Windows 7 to Windows 10, if your copy of Windows 7 was activated, Microsoft provided a digital license for Windows 10 without any cost.</li>
<li>In the background, the upgrade process runs a file named gatherosstate.exe (available in Windows 10/11 ISO) and it checks the license of the current Windows installation. If it detected that it is activated, it generates a valid GenuineTicket.xml <strong>ticket</strong> which is sent to Microsoft and in return, MS authorizes a license.</li>
<li>So, if we can convince the gatherosstate.exe file that the conditions are met for ticket generation by fooling it, it will generate a valid ticket, which can be used to get the valid digital license.</li>
<li>How to convince gatherosstate.exe that Windows is activated?<br>
<!---->There are two methods for it.<br>
<strong>1-</strong> Place a <ahref="https://github.com/asdcorp/Integrated_Patcher_3"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">custom slc.dll</a> file beside gatherosstate.exe:<br>
<!---->gatherosstate.exe uses the system's <code>C:\Windows\System32\slc.dll</code> file to gather the system's info. If we place a custom slc.dll file beside gatherosstate.exe, it can send rubbish data to it, then it will simply accept it and generate a valid ticket.<br>
<strong>2-</strong><ahref="https://github.com/asdcorp/GamersOsState"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Modify</a> the gatherosstate.exe file directly so that it doesn't check the system's activation status at all and create a valid ticket.</li>
<li>You can find the workings of this old method here: <ahref="https://github.com/massgravel/MAS-Legacy-Methods"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">MAS-Legacy-Methods</a>.</li>
<li>Microsoft <ahref="https://devicepartner.microsoft.com/en-us/communications/comm-windows-ends-installation-path-for-free-windows-7-8-upgrade"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">made</a> server-side changes to their licensing servers to block the free upgrade, and with that server-side change, this method stopped working. To be clear, only new activation requests coming from new hardware were blocked, already established digital licenses with this method are fine.</li>
</ul>
<h4class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="hwid-2-currently-working-03-oct-2023---current">HWID 2 (Currently working) (03 Oct 2023 - Current)<ahref="#hwid-2-currently-working-03-oct-2023---current"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to HWID 2 (Currently working) (03 Oct 2023 - Current)"title="Direct link to HWID 2 (Currently working) (03 Oct 2023 - Current)"></a></h4>
<ul>
<li>When Microsoft stopped the free upgrade, it started requiring a genuine valid key in the ticket to authorize a digital license. In the new method, we use only the Installation ID of a genuine, valid key. This gets accepted by the server and allows us to get a digital license for free. Check the manual activation process in below section to know how to make working universal tickets.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Now a question, can Microsoft block the new requests or revoke already established digital licenses?</p>
<ul>
<li>Revoking the licenses would be too extreme and will face many complications and create a risk of voiding valid licenses. However, they can very easily block the new activation requests for new hardware coming from the methods mentioned here.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="supported-products">Supported Products<ahref="#supported-products"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Supported Products"title="Direct link to Supported Products"></a></h2>
<li>X86-X64 and ARM64 architecture systems are supported.</li>
<li>Any Evaluation version of Windows (i.e. 'EVAL' LTSB/C) cannot be activated.</li>
<li>IoTEnterpriseS (LTSC) 2021 key will be used to activate the unsupported EnterpriseS (LTSC) 2021 edition.</li>
<li>Windows Server does not support HWID activation.</li>
<li>ServerRdsh edition does not <ahref="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/windows-10-multisession-faq"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">officially</a> support activation on non-azure systems.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="how-to-remove-hwid">How to remove HWID?<ahref="#how-to-remove-hwid"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to How to remove HWID?"title="Direct link to How to remove HWID?"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li>You cannot remove it, just like you cannot remove an official Windows digital license. Once a system is activated, this activation cannot be removed because the license is stored in the Microsoft servers and not in the user's system. MS checks the hardware ID (HWID) and if a license is found in their database, the system will automatically activate.</li>
<li>If you still want to remove the activation for any XYZ reason, you can either use the change edition option in the extras section in MAS <strong>or</strong> get the KMS key from <ahref="/kms38#supported-products">here</a> and enter this in the Windows settings activation page.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="command-line-switches">Command line Switches<ahref="#command-line-switches"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Command line Switches"title="Direct link to Command line Switches"></a></h2>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="manual-activation">Manual Activation<ahref="#manual-activation"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Manual Activation"title="Direct link to Manual Activation"></a></h2>
<p>This is for those who wants to perform manual activation. If you want a tool to do this for you, then check <ahref="/#download--how-to-use-it">here</a>.<br>
<!---->We can perform the manual activation process in 2 ways.</p>
<h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="1--from-ready-made-ticket">1- From Ready-Made Ticket<ahref="#1--from-ready-made-ticket"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to 1- From Ready-Made Ticket"title="Direct link to 1- From Ready-Made Ticket"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>Make sure the internet is enabled.</li>
<li>Open Windows PowerShell as administrator, and enter the following commands in the sequence in which they are given.</li>
<li>Enter the Key (Replace <code><key></code> with the key from the above list) with the following command:<br>
<code>slmgr /ipk <key></code></li>
<li>Download Universal tickets from <ahref="/assets/files/Tickets-a2c5b276276c43ce40d84e13ed1d85b7.zip"target="_blank">here</a> and extract the downloaded file.</li>
<li>Now run below command in PowerShell to apply the ticket:<br>
<code>clipup -v -o</code></li>
<li>Activate Windows with the following command:<br>
<code>slmgr /ato</code></li>
<li>Check Activation Status with the following command:<br>
<code>slmgr /xpr</code></li>
<li>Done.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="2--from-scratch">2- From Scratch<ahref="#2--from-scratch"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to 2- From Scratch"title="Direct link to 2- From Scratch"></a></h3>
<p>In this process, we will perform activation from scratch. This is based on the Universal ticket method. Here, we will create identical tickets that are used in the MAS HWID script and activate the system with them.</p>
<ul>
<li>Download the file from the official MS link and extract the .cab file.<br>
<li>Find the file named <code>filf8377e82b29deadca67bc4858ed3fba9</code> (Size: 330 KB) and rename it to <code>gatherosstate.exe</code></li>
<li>Make a folder named <code>Files</code> in the C drive, <code>C:\Files</code> and copy the <code>gatherosstate.exe</code> file into that folder.</li>
<li>Make sure that the internet is enabled.</li>
<li>Open Windows PowerShell as administrator and enter the following commands in the sequence in which they are given.</li>
<li>Enter the key (Replace <code><key></code> with the key from the above list) with the following command:<br>
<code>slmgr /ipk <key></code></li>
<li>Copy the below code all at once and enter it in PowerShell to modify the <code>gatherosstate.exe</code> file. This code to modify the file is based on <ahref="https://github.com/asdcorp/GamersOsState"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">GamersOsState</a>.</li>
<li>A GenuineTicket.xml file should be created in the folder <code>C:\Files\</code>. Now, let's apply it.<br>
<code>clipup -v -o -altto C:\Files\</code></li>
<li>Activate Windows with the following command:<br>
<code>slmgr /ato</code></li>
<li>Check Activation Status with the following command:<br>
<code>slmgr /xpr</code></li>
<li>Done.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>If the system is already activated then, then the created ticket will be a Lockbox ticket. If not, it will be a Downlevel ticket.</li>
<li>To make the exact ticket used in MAS HWID script, make sure system is already activated and fix the time with the below PowerShell command and then initiate the ticket generation process as per the steps mentioned above.<br>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="setup-preactivate">Setup Preactivate<ahref="#setup-preactivate"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Setup Preactivate"title="Direct link to Setup Preactivate"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li>Check the Extract OEM option in the MAS <code>Extras</code> section if you want pre-activated Windows installation.</li>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="troubleshooting">Troubleshooting<ahref="#troubleshooting"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Troubleshooting"title="Direct link to Troubleshooting"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li>Check <ahref="/troubleshoot">here</a>.</li>
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