I am setting up several machines on Windows 10 by using the Windows 7 professional key. After I got one set up the way i wanted it, I made a backup and decided to use it on the other machines.
The backup is going on fine. I go to "Settings", "System", and scroll down to "About" and see the same "Product ID" and the same "Device ID" as the one the backup came from. I can sort of understand that as it WAS a backup from another machine. BUT - when I scroll down to "Change Product Key", I see all the big red letters telling me that Windows can not be activated, blah blah , blah.
I click on "change product key from THIS page and insert the key from this particular Windows 7 machine. Windows 10 activates just fine. All the warnings are gone and I get the notice that "Windows is activated with a digital license. That's great.
BUT, The "Device ID" and the "Product ID" are STILL the same as all the other machines that I am using this backup on. Should the "Device ID" and the Product ID" not be different since I am using different keys to activate Windows 10?
I have set up several of my machines this way and the fact that the numbers are the same doesn't seem right.
Does anyone have an answer? Should those numbers not be different on different machines?
The backup is going on fine. I go to "Settings", "System", and scroll down to "About" and see the same "Product ID" and the same "Device ID" as the one the backup came from. I can sort of understand that as it WAS a backup from another machine. BUT - when I scroll down to "Change Product Key", I see all the big red letters telling me that Windows can not be activated, blah blah , blah.
I click on "change product key from THIS page and insert the key from this particular Windows 7 machine. Windows 10 activates just fine. All the warnings are gone and I get the notice that "Windows is activated with a digital license. That's great.
BUT, The "Device ID" and the "Product ID" are STILL the same as all the other machines that I am using this backup on. Should the "Device ID" and the Product ID" not be different since I am using different keys to activate Windows 10?
I have set up several of my machines this way and the fact that the numbers are the same doesn't seem right.
Does anyone have an answer? Should those numbers not be different on different machines?