One of the novelties that Windows 10 Anniversary Update has brought us is the possibility of associating our Windows 10 license with the Microsoft account that we usually use on our PC, in this way every time we use that account to install Windows 10 on that PC It will automatically recognize the license and we will not have to enter it or look for it among the papers where we keep the application installation discs or drivers for our PC. This is the fastest way to reinstall our operating system again, since when using our Microsoft account, This will provide the corresponding license number.
The process to associate our Windows 10 PC license with our Microsoft account is very simple and will only take a few seconds, as long as we already have the latest update installed that Microsoft began to offer on August 2 and that little by little is becoming available in more countries. The second thing is to have a Microsoft account. If we do not have any, we just have to go to outlook.com and open an account that will allow us to access all Microsoft services. For this procesor any account @ hotmail.com / .es or @ outlook.com / .es is valid
Associate our Windows 10 license to our Microsoft account
- First of all we must go to Configuration.
- Within Settings, click on Updates and Security
- In the next step we will click on Activation.
- Then we can enter an optional PIN that will offer us greater security in case someone tries to access our account. We write our user account and password and click on accept.
- Once we have finished the activation, Windows 10 it will show us a message confirming that the license of our PC with Windows 10 it has been associated with a Microsoft account.