Can't find the Windows 8 Product Key Sticker on your computer? Here's why.

How to retrieve a Windows 8 key from your OEM computer's BIOS (Since many don't know what the Show More button does):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK4tBT98DDU

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With Windows 8, Microsoft licenses Windows differently than it did with earlier versions. On OEM systems, instead of having a COA key sticker, the key is encrypted into the computer's BIOS. As the title clearly states, this isn't a how-to video, but a video explaining why your new Windows 8 computer is missing that product key sticker.

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Closed Caption:

everybody let's say good windows 8 om
peace
that needs to have one is reinstalled
let's say the hard drive crashes or if
you're wanting to get rid of all the LEM
junk and get rid of all the LEM recovery
partitions in this start from scratch
with a fresh install of Windows 8 now
i'm assigned recommending robot going to
seven but I'm let's see you just want to
install windows 8 and you set it flip
over the computer letting in a case for
latin flip over the laptop on the bottom
side and you proceed look for a coa
sticker you can't find it you open the
battery compartment don't find it there
either you're saying where is this see
always ticaret well I got news for you
with windows 8 i'm trying to be the same
with one is april one they have changed
the way that I'm OMG machines are
licensed for like one has XP through
windows 7 you actually had two keys you
had an oem SLP key there would either be
i'm being used in pre-installed copies
windows or you can unload this SLP key
and using a loader and you would also
have am coa key on the bombing the
machine so you had your OEM SLP in euro
MCLA two separate keys remarks someone
always say that i missed the computer
crashes or whatever you want to
reinstall windows you activate using the
C away key and with windows vista
windows 7 many times when you use a co a
key for first-time the OEM co a key for
first time you have to use the telephone
activation to activate it anyways I'm
you're still looking for the key on your
own windows 8 machine is not there
because now Microsoft has decided to
simplify things a blade is a believe
this so use a master SLP key on
pre-installed copies of windows 8 but
I'm they also include more less what
used to be a CoA is now within the
motherboard BIOS
so it's actually I'm encrypted within
the the motherboards buyers and i
believe the biases flash it doesn't harm
this I'm gonna believe the key works
similar to the SLP style key anyways
let's go ahead and I'm sure an example
of what you will see above the ones a
computer with windows 8 you don't have
the CLA as i mentioned you had this
little bitty sticker says windows 8
that's all you have
see what we used to have seelake he's
that never wore off
they want to see like he's at war off
actually keep walking sticker now we're
going to have an OC like he's at all and
this one full bite mark soft so you see
your computer has a lot of video has a
sticker on the bottom of it mattered in
a coa sticker like this medicine has
worn off
you can't read the key but this is for
windows vista but I'm you say you saw
that little bitty one has a sticker on
the bottom machine and you now get the
idea that I'm the key is in the virus
now obviously if I didn't tell you that
you'd be clueless as to where he is at
so you go to your buyers you start
looking for your key
you still can't find anywhere as i
mention it's encrypted you can't find it
you can actually bring it up and see it
so you thinking okay how am I gonna
reinstall this company windows without a
key
well here's the good news about that of
course i have actually had two
experiences shit but this is a lot of
research online about the matter when
you go to install windows 8 the windows
8 install DVD before ask you for a key
it will search your motherboard's bias
for a key and it finds the key it
proceeded it is proceed along with setup
as usual you look as if you are
installing windows seven because 107
does not ask you for a key during the
initial setup unless you get prompted to
I'm worried you'd be asked where you're
going to start with that kind of stuff
now if it can't find the key
it will ask you to enter a product key
and with windows 8 you can't skip this
anymore it's like the old ones XP days
for windows 98 days you had to have a
product key there just to install the
operating system now what does XP
service pack 3 install disk and I'm the
vista windows 7 you could this I'm not
inner product you would unchecked
activate windows online and just skip
the whole process but one is that you
must have a key to actually install the
operating system so if you get asked for
he means it couldn't find the key in
your buyers but you didn't did you
didn't gasps turkey that means it found
the key within the bias so you can
actually go ahead and install windows 8
on this computer and you don't have to
work by entering the key because it will
find it would think that the alien
computer's bios now ask you then you
need to contact your OEM or contact
marks office you can get audio even
about the matter
someone just want to clarify some things
about 1 is 8 and how they have changed
with the OEM licensing anyways and the
questions comments feel free to ask
thanks for watching