{"id":1617,"date":"2012-11-27T09:52:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T09:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2012-11-27T09:53:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T09:53:40","slug":"how-to-change-windows-8-product-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-change-windows-8-product-key\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Windows 8 Product Key?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you need to change your product key so you can activate Windows 8 properly? After installing Windows 8, you&#8217;ll find that there is no option to enter a product key under Computer properties. Or, at least I did not see it. Luckily, the good old Command Prompt and slmgr.vbs tools came to rescue. Just follow this tutorial to change Windows 8 product key using Command Prompt and slmgr.vbs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Change Windows 8 Product Key?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Move the mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen, click the <strong>Search<\/strong> icon.<\/li>\n<li>Type in <strong>cmd<\/strong> in the search box, then right-click on the &#8220;Command Prompt&#8221; icon on the top-left of the search result page. A tick sign appears on the icon.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/command-prompt.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"command-prompt\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/command-prompt.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/command-prompt-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click on the <strong>Run as Administrator<\/strong> icon from the bottom options.<\/li>\n<li>Once the command prompt is launched with administrator privilege, run the following command to enter your product key:<br \/>\n\t<code>slmgr.vbs -ipk {insert your product key here}<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/productkey.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"productkey\" width=\"589\" height=\"231\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/productkey.png 589w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/productkey-300x117.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Then run the following command to activate Windows after changing the key:<br \/>\n\t<code>slmgr.vbs -ato<\/code>\n<\/li>\n<li>You will get a confirmation on product activated successfully.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you need to change your product key so you can activate Windows 8 properly? After installing Windows 8, you&#8217;ll find that there is no option to enter a product key under Computer properties. Or, at least I did not see it. Luckily, the good old Command Prompt and slmgr.vbs tools came to rescue. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39],"tags":[714,713],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-8","tag-activate-windows-8","tag-change-windows-8-product-key"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}