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Re: Windows licence Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by marythodge4 …can be automatically detected and used during the Windows installation process. Possible Issues with License Edition… Home edition. During the installation process, Windows should automatically detect the embedded key and activate… Edition Create Installation Media for Windows Home: Download the Windows Media Creation Tool from the Microsoft… Windows licence Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by bloggingtime According to Dell's website the Windows licence is specifoc to each particular machine and its details are burned into the BIOS. Is it possible that the original OS was Home edition (in which case the licence is not valid for Pro)? Have you tried installing a Home edition? Re: Windows licence Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by rproffitt The mechanics of Windows activation is well discussed so I won't breach that topic. To your last question, yes. 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Re: Windows 10 Performance Issue Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by rproffitt This is a rather well done topic so I'll share that at the office we are nearing the end of W10 and have moved almost all to W11. I can write we see little to no performance difference so we have that going for us. That said, the minimum hardware is now at the Core i7 CPU, 16GB RAM or more and SSD for all storage. Since we pay by the hour this… Re: Problem with the external hard drive Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Ali_204 … see if it’s recognized there. Use Disk Management: On Windows, open Disk Management by right-clicking on the Start button… not accessible. Some popular options include: Recuva (Windows) EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard (Windows and Mac) TestDisk (Windows, Mac, and Linux - free and powerful… Re: Problem with the external hard drive Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Mary_51 … non-readable disks. 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If you want the icon to show then turn copilot preview on. Or you can use the hotkey WINDOWS+C. Copilot should appear docked to the right of the screen.. Re: Read file properties of video files in C++ Programming Software Development by Thomasio …that may be because of a file format Windows cannot read correctly. But then for the video… files where Windows does report details within the file properties it…in near no time which makes me believe Windows doesn't open the file in it'…get the properties from there, I do believe Windows must have some API command for that, … Read file properties of video files in C++ Programming Software Development by Thomasio I want to figure out what Windows does when you right-click a video file and check properties and I would like to write a similar piece of code in C++. I should be able to figure out how to read the file type and size, but I'm lost in how to get details of the video like resolution and runtime. Which API commands does Windows use there?