In au moins two help pages, Microsoft explains that a Windows 10 license can be linked to a Microsoft compte, allowing it to be easily moved entre ordinateurs:
- [Reactivating Windows 10 after a hardware change](https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/20530/windows-10-reactivating-after-hardware-change)
- [Using the Activation troubleshooter](https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/20527/windows-10-activation-troubleshooter)
According to this documentation, c'est the case when the Windows activation paramètres display the following message:
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Windows is activated avec a digital license linked to your Microsoft compte.
Apparently, c'est a nouveau fonctionnalité that was introduced dans le Windows 10 Anniversary Mise à jour.
Je voudrais know if il y a any way to manage this link entre the digital license and the Microsoft compte. Specifically, I would like to:
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**See which Microsoft compte the license is linked to.** J'ai deux utilisateurs set up on this ordinateur and they are linked to different Microsoft comptes. Après checking the activation paramètres, I realized that the license on that ordinateur was automatiquement bound to *some* Microsoft compte at some point, but c'est not telling me *which* compte it a été bound to. (Is it possible that it is linked to both comptes en même temps?)
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**Unlink the license from a Microsoft compte, and possibly re-link it to a different compte.** This serait useful if Je veux give away or sell my ordinateur, par exemple.
Comment manage the link entre a Windows 10 license and a Microsoft compte?
Re: Comment manage the link entre a Windows 10 license and a Microsoft compte?
Ceci est an answer to your first question: **See which Microsoft compte the license is linked to.**
Il n'y a pas de direct way to scomment which compte a digital license is bound to. The compte périphérique list du Microsoft compte cannot be trusted: Si je add another (non admin) utilisateur avec a Microsoft compte to my machine, the name du ordinateur sera added dans le périphérique list du nouveau compte, too. Certainly, the digital license of my ordinateur is encore bound to my (admin) compte and not vers le nouveau utilisateur.
Therfore vous devez vérifiez le list of digital licenses in every Microsoft compte you own.
The seulement method Je sais to list digital licenses bound to a Microsoft compte is to **try** to transfer them to a nouveau, "unknown" matériel. "Unknown" means, that on this matériel Windows 10 has not been installé avant. "Try" means just to begdans le transfer processus until the last step and not to finish the activation processus.
This nouveau, "unknown" matériel can be a real matériel (nouveau mainboard) or a virtual matériel (e.g. VMware machine virtuelle). C'est important to notez que the fingerprint of this matériel shall not exist dans le database of Micrsoft's activation servers. Otherwise the matériel sera activated automatiquement and you ne va pas get a chance to transfer a different digital license to it parce que it déjà **has** a digital license. The transfer processus ne va pas get offered.
My method for Windows 10 b1607 is as follows:
- Créez un nouveau machine virtuelle (VM)
- Installer Windows 10 sans any clé de produit (the edition ne matter, Home or Pro, x86 or x64)
- Essayez to activate the VM
- Entrez the [windows activation dialog](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20530/windows-10-reactivating-after-hardware-change) where it is possible to transfer your digital licenses to this VM ("Troubleshoot", "I changed matériel on this périphérique récemment")
- Entrez your Microsoft compte credentials du compte which you want to check
- Maintenant you get a list ("Reactivate Windows", "Sélectionnez this périphérique from below") of périphériques which are bound to your Microsoft compte **and** which have a digital license **and** which are dans le same "périphérique class" as your current périphérique (the VM). This périphérique list is the **first part** du whole list of digital licenses du compte. "Périphérique classes" are e. g. laptops, standalone PCs or machine virtuelles. In my opinion machine virtuelles are separated in different périphérique classes, too (VMware, Oracle, etc.)
- To see the **second part** du list of your digital licenses vous devez list all périphériques which ne pas match the current VM, i.e. which belong to a different périphérique class. Click sur le link en bas of this page: "See other périphériques linked to your Microsoft compte". Maintenant you get the second part du list of your digital licenses which belong to périphériques that cannot be transferred ("Périphérique tapez ne match", Edition ne match")
This whole processus seems to be reliable in respect to list my own digital licenses which I bound to different Microsoft comptes. Cependant, some périphériques du second list ("We ne peut pas reactivate Windows depuis lese périphériques" ) migrated après some days vers le first list ("périphériques which can be activated"). But this ne matter as the périphérique entries stay the same.
And of course il n'y a pas de guarantee that périphériques which are shown dans le first list can be reactivated avec the périphérique avec which you are actuellement checking the license. E.g. when I check avec my machine virtuelle J'ai aussi get some digital licenses dans le first list which belong to a different périphérique class (e.g. standalone PC). Je suis sure that a transfer from a license like this to a VM would not work in reality.
Il n'y a pas de direct way to scomment which compte a digital license is bound to. The compte périphérique list du Microsoft compte cannot be trusted: Si je add another (non admin) utilisateur avec a Microsoft compte to my machine, the name du ordinateur sera added dans le périphérique list du nouveau compte, too. Certainly, the digital license of my ordinateur is encore bound to my (admin) compte and not vers le nouveau utilisateur.
Therfore vous devez vérifiez le list of digital licenses in every Microsoft compte you own.
The seulement method Je sais to list digital licenses bound to a Microsoft compte is to **try** to transfer them to a nouveau, "unknown" matériel. "Unknown" means, that on this matériel Windows 10 has not been installé avant. "Try" means just to begdans le transfer processus until the last step and not to finish the activation processus.
This nouveau, "unknown" matériel can be a real matériel (nouveau mainboard) or a virtual matériel (e.g. VMware machine virtuelle). C'est important to notez que the fingerprint of this matériel shall not exist dans le database of Micrsoft's activation servers. Otherwise the matériel sera activated automatiquement and you ne va pas get a chance to transfer a different digital license to it parce que it déjà **has** a digital license. The transfer processus ne va pas get offered.
My method for Windows 10 b1607 is as follows:
- Créez un nouveau machine virtuelle (VM)
- Installer Windows 10 sans any clé de produit (the edition ne matter, Home or Pro, x86 or x64)
- Essayez to activate the VM
- Entrez the [windows activation dialog](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20530/windows-10-reactivating-after-hardware-change) where it is possible to transfer your digital licenses to this VM ("Troubleshoot", "I changed matériel on this périphérique récemment")
- Entrez your Microsoft compte credentials du compte which you want to check
- Maintenant you get a list ("Reactivate Windows", "Sélectionnez this périphérique from below") of périphériques which are bound to your Microsoft compte **and** which have a digital license **and** which are dans le same "périphérique class" as your current périphérique (the VM). This périphérique list is the **first part** du whole list of digital licenses du compte. "Périphérique classes" are e. g. laptops, standalone PCs or machine virtuelles. In my opinion machine virtuelles are separated in different périphérique classes, too (VMware, Oracle, etc.)
- To see the **second part** du list of your digital licenses vous devez list all périphériques which ne pas match the current VM, i.e. which belong to a different périphérique class. Click sur le link en bas of this page: "See other périphériques linked to your Microsoft compte". Maintenant you get the second part du list of your digital licenses which belong to périphériques that cannot be transferred ("Périphérique tapez ne match", Edition ne match")
This whole processus seems to be reliable in respect to list my own digital licenses which I bound to different Microsoft comptes. Cependant, some périphériques du second list ("We ne peut pas reactivate Windows depuis lese périphériques" ) migrated après some days vers le first list ("périphériques which can be activated"). But this ne matter as the périphérique entries stay the same.
And of course il n'y a pas de guarantee that périphériques which are shown dans le first list can be reactivated avec the périphérique avec which you are actuellement checking the license. E.g. when I check avec my machine virtuelle J'ai aussi get some digital licenses dans le first list which belong to a different périphérique class (e.g. standalone PC). Je suis sure that a transfer from a license like this to a VM would not work in reality.