I made a mirror on my Mega-Drive for the tools mentioned in my guide here, you can download it here.

This little utility is designed to do one thing, backup and restoring your Activation Status. Once we buy the retail version of Windows 8/8.1- 10, backing up the activation would be a more permanent solution given that you don’t change the hardware or OS edition along the road which means you have to reactivate and backup again.That way when you have reinstalled Windows and the hardware drivers it should work just fine restoring activation later.

One way to prevent this from happening would be to make sure everything is installed and up to date before activating and then take the backup.

It has come to my attention that installing certain hardware drivers will break the activation on Windows 8/8.1- 10 forcing you to reactivate.

The solution will likely 100% fail if you make changes to hardware and re-install Windows and then trying to restore activation again because MS checks for specific hardware changes each restart.

The activation is tied to your specific hardware and OS edition, so keep that in mind.

Important information regarding the activation process

Buy the products if you like it, this is not a warez board.

Some Antivirus programs might interference into the activation process, turn it off.

Before you reinstall the activation ensure that you disable your Internet connection and also ensure you do it after you restarted the PC, because Microsoft checks the license after each restart.

I highly recommend to backup more than one application just in case one fails you have another alternative to succeed to reinstall activation.

Save your activation keys somewhere just in case there are some software may ask you your full license key to enter manually.

Install device driver especially Intel Rapid Storage Technology before you are going to restore the backup because it might changes some parts of the ID (which then triggers the system to re-activate the product).

Do not ask me here on my Blog or via eMail or other platforms for a Key!.

This activation method backs up and restores the Windows 10, Server 2016 activation as well as Microsoft Office activation.

But if you want to reinstall Windows or if you switch Office and don’t want to lose the activation then you can create a backup of the activation and then reinstall Windows then restore the activation. Sometimes when you activate Windows with a previous key then you have a problem with activation and get the error message “This key has a limit of activation or is blocked. For activation you look for a valid MAK-Retail key, calling Microsoft or waiting for a KMS server to go online etc. My tutorial explains how to backup and restore an activation license of Windows, Office & Server. You need to backup and restore an activation because every time you format and reinstall Windows you need to activate Windows again.

Windows and office activator