A digital license can be attached to your Microsoft ID or it can be specific to a device. In either case, you don’t need to enter a product key in order to activate Windows 10 license. It will be automatically activated. There are times when users need to verify if their installation of Windows 10 is activated or not. In this article, we will go through three easy ways to verify that your Windows 10 license is activated properly. So let’s begin!
Using Windows Settings (Windows 10 only)
Go to Start Menu → Settings (Windows key + X + N)
Using Windows Settings (Windows 10 only) Using Control Panel (All Windows Versions) Using command prompt (All Windows Versions) Activating Windows 10
Now go to Update & Security → Activation The right-hand pane will show you if Windows is activated. It will also tell you whether it has been activated with a product key or a digital license.
In case it is not activated, it will show up like this:
Using Control Panel (All Windows Versions)
This method can be useful if you are using older versions of Windows like Windows 8.1 or Windows 7. Since Windows 10 does not prefer the Control Panel, I will show you the shortcut steps to open the system properties instead of going through the Control Panel. Go to Run → control system This will open the system properties window. At the end of the window, you will see the Windows activation information. But it does not give any information about which license is activated.
Using command prompt (All Windows Versions)
This will open another dialog with Windows activation information. If Windows 10 is activated, it will show as “This machine is permanently activated”.
If it is not activated, it will show as “Windows is in notification mode”
Activating Windows 10
If your Windows 10 is not activated, this could be because of several reasons. Some of the reasons could be: Whatever the case, you can activate Windows 10 using the following steps:
These simple check can make sure that we are using an activated version of Windows and keep us safe from issues like Windows automatically restarting, signing out or the system locking itself again and again, etc. Do comment below about your thoughts about Windows activation and how you use it.
