windows is activated using your organization

Question Installed windows pro with home licence. PC recently broke, building new rig and unsure how to re install windows and find my activation key Installing Windows in new SSD without any activation key but there's Windows 10 in my old HDD.

Question Problem activating windows 10 after changing Motherboard and CPU Question Windows RDS 2016: How To Restrict RDS users from accessing the 'Default' user profile? The previous owner’s company activated it when they were working. Question Need assistance activating Windows 10 Enterprise E3 license What does it mean Windows is activated using your organization’s activation service It means that the Windows installation is volume licensed. What you should see is host addresses that resemble the business that IT guy activated at. Follow steps at: (be careful when using any command with slmgr /upk as it may remove all the keys if you mistype the values). Obviously, it should show up from internal commands that list the KMS servers. *Unknown KMS hosts present: The KMS cracker mechanic relies on altering the system to look at a fake KMS server to validate. Look at the exclusion list for any kind of system files. This (or access to these) will make most AV systems go nuts, so the altered DLL's are usually excluded after the DLL's are injected. *Antivirus exclusions: More advanced crackers don't need a persistent process, but an altered system DLL or executable instead. It has most likely set itself up to the startup too. The previous owners company activated it when they were working. *Background processes, especially the ones in the startup section: Basic KMS crackers work through a persistent system process which needs to be alive all the time, look for anything that has the name KMS in it and doesn't look like a legitimate Windows file. It means that the Windows installation is volume licensed.

Here is some steps that might let you point out if the KMS in your system is a fake or not: