The product key is tied and activated to the specific motherboard your PC has.
You could pay for an ad on the side of a bus with your product key in meter high fonts, and no one can ever use it. Your concerns regarding using 3rd party software to find the product key in your PC's BIOS are unwarranted. I have zipped up and attached a free utility below, that will show you the W8 product key in your notebook's BIOS. I have zipped up and attached below, the Microsoft tool which hopefully will transfer the ISO file to a DVD or usb flash drive so it is bootable. Then manually change the generic product key to the one in your PC's BIOS. This is the generic key for W8.1 'standard.' If you are asked to enter a product key during the installation process, see if using this generic key works, and then change the key to the one in your notebook's BIOS in the PC settings menu after you install Windows. See if you can install W8.1 using the Microsoft installation media. You are making it hidden again and it stops executing on startup.Here is how you can clean install W8.1 using the W8 product key in your notebook's BIOS. Just attributes of file were changed manually / by mistake or by some 3rd party application.
In particular, a desktop.ini file identifies the folder that corresponds to the Startup menu. Restart / Reboot PC and you won’t see any notepad file on next startup.ĭesktop.ini is a configuration file which Windows uses to identify how a folder should be displayed.Įntries in the desktop.ini file can define a special icon, a tooltip, or a special name, among other things.Right click on desktop.ini file and access properties.Paste the following address in Address bar: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp.Small search on this issue revealed that this problem was also in Windows 7 but solving procedure was little different.ĭesktop.ini file reads something like this on Windows 8 PRO: How to Fix: One thing was sure that it isn’t any trojan to be removed because I believe in Bitdefender Antivirus installed on my system. It isn’t actually a problem but I was just curious to know why do I get welcomed by a Desktop.ini file in Notepad on Windows 8 Startup. 6 Desktop.ini Opens in Notepad on Windows 8 Startup: How to Fix
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