{"id":15308,"date":"2016-01-10T22:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T06:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/?p=15308"},"modified":"2016-01-10T22:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T06:28:39","slug":"going-back-to-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2016\/01\/10\/going-back-to-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Back to Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15309\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Going-Back-to-Windows-8.jpg\" alt=\"Going Back to Windows 8\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For some odd reasons, Windows 10 would not activate after upgrading from Windows 8.1. I called Microsoft and they told me to reinstall Windows 8, then upgrade to Windows 8.1 and upgrade to Windows 10. Microsoft also advised me to call HP and request Windows 8 Product Key should the process failed.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15310\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Windows-10-is-not-activated.jpg\" alt=\"Windows 10 is not activated\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the &#8220;factory-installed&#8221; product key caused the error. The\u00a0end user product key is said to be installed in the UEFI BIOS, encrypted.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;d have to spend a few more days on this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some odd reasons, Windows 10 would not activate after upgrading from Windows 8.1. I called Microsoft and they told me to reinstall Windows 8, then upgrade to Windows 8.1 and upgrade to Windows 10. Microsoft also advised me to call HP and request Windows 8 Product Key should the process failed. Seriously? Apparently the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2016\/01\/10\/going-back-to-windows-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going Back to Windows 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1439,934,936,3217,3220],"class_list":["post-15308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal","category-news","tag-hp","tag-microsoft","tag-tech","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-3YU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}