[speccy op sys>serial number question]

16 hours ago, hazelnut said:

If your machine is already activated then you have a digital licence which is stored on the Microsoft cloud servers.

When you clean install from the same machine the licence will automatically be activated.

I am working on a friend's computer and don't have access to her MS account.

I would really like to know why there is a discrepancy between the two reported number. Where does Speccy get its number from?

[speccy op sys>serial number question]

In SPECCY under OPERATING SYSTEM  a value is displayed as SERIAL NUMBER.

That value does not match the value displayed when I issue the command :

wmie path SoftwareLicencingServices get OA3xOriginalProductKey

in the command window.

Shouldn't they match?

Which of those two numbers should I use when I try to do a clean W11 install on a new disk drive?

Thanks,

Walt