speccy op sys>serial number question

Speccy Speccy Bug Reporting
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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

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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.

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16 hours ago, hazelnut said: 
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		If your machine is already activated then you have a digital licence which is stored on the Microsoft cloud servers.
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		When you clean install from the same machine the licence will automatically be activated.
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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?

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7 hours ago, kokopeli said: 
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		I am working on a friend's computer and don't have access to her MS account.
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		I would really like to know why there is a discrepancy between the two reported number. Where does Speccy get its number from?
	</p>
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You do not need to have access to her account. When the machine goes online it get activated automatically by the cloud if the machine has a digital licence