You can install from vanilla OEM media and download drivers and HP crapware from HP. If it doesn't have SLIC (some HP machines were sold with FreeDOS without SLIC) it won't activate even when installed from HP recovery media. If you use recovery media and laptop has SLIC it will work. Purchasing HP recovery set is pointless (unless friend burns you a copy or you get it for like 5$ or want to have box, media, cables, wraps for your hardware museum). Office Tool Plus support multiple edition of Office, Visio and Project, you can configure more options for deploy. Fast & Easy, deploy Office in just two steps. Thus if your machine has legit licence 10 will activate once online and won't if it doesn't. Office Tool Plus get Office from Microsoft, make sure you can deploy the latest version of Office. If you activate purchased or upgraded from activated 7 Windows 10 it also gets entered in MS database. The only difference between activating OEM versions is key (different product keys for OEM home, OEM pro, OEM ultimate).įor Windows 10 every machine on being manufactured gets a new key directly from MS flashed in BIOS. If machine has SLIC it will activate any OEM version (home pro ultimate) using corresponding xrm-ms. It is least hassle to use the OEM activation as it will not become deactivated and also if you have many same brand machines in shop, you can move HDDs from machine to machine hassle free. Windows activated in such way hard drive will run on any machine that has same OEM SLIC activation in BIOS and will become deactivated on any other motherboard/laptop. Longer story: OEMs had option for Vista and 7 to include certificate in BIOS to activate windows using certificate file and OEM key. ask on my digital life for someone to SLIC mod your BIOS find SLIC 2.1 modded BIOS for your laptop and flash

install 7 using activation crack and then upgrade to 10, then reinstall 10

After that you can upgrade to 10, then clean reinstall 10. If it has SLIC 2.1 or higher (2= Vista 2.1 = 7 2.2 2.3 = 8 or Server 2012 3 = 10) install Win 7 of choice (home, pro, ultimate, N) using OEM media (download OEM install) and activate using OEM xrm-ms and OEM key.

Download SLIC toolkit and check what license laptop has in BIOS.

Slic toolkit official download