My son has an unactivated version with that nagging box on the machine I built with him. That would bug me too much. I think I'll try what is suggesting first.
Yeah it's annoying. If that doesn't do it keys are cheap on ebay. I prefer doing clean installs myself.
Same here with the clean installs.
If nothing else, this will give me an excuse to make sure I have everything backed up. My C:\ is a SSD which was just supposed to have the OS on it, but I think I ended up with a bunch of other junk on there too over the years.
I'd totally grab him a key too. Like I said. Super cheap on ebay.
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