While keys are a separate animal from licenses, it wouldn't make sense for Dell to spend extra labor to remove the embedded key when they would still be providing you with an OEM license. Find your product key of Windows 10 using CMD. Other methods to find product key in Windows 10. The image is deprived due to security reasons. Now, you can see the Product key of Windows 10 in the above image. Think of it as an upgrade.īecause of this, Dell would still be supplying you with an OEM license. Double click on the productkey file, and you will see a popup window appearing on the screen and showing the product key of your Windows. Generally this is an OEM or Retail Pro edition, but there are exceptions for certain education and non-profit organizations. You can create a clone of it to restore after testing there activation of a Windows OEM image.VL Windows has to have an underlying license. I haven't had experience with this, but as long as Dell didn't remove the key from UEFI, I think that you should be fine. We need to find out what the key is that Dell originally assigned to the laptop. If we sell the laptop, we cannot include our activation key.
All new laptops include the image and the windows activation key is an open volume license key. We just started using an image that we sent to Dell. Let me back up and explain our situation a little better.