Product keys for Windows 8 computers aren't printed on a sticker. They're encrypted in the BIOS. How might that affect you? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

PC manufacturers like HP, Dell, Asus, etc., offer the Windows OS with a built-in Product Key that can be activated right away. This is called as the Original Equipment Manufacturer or OEM key. It ...

Anyone want to help me win an argument…or maybe make me look stupid? I'm in an ongoing argument elsewhere about the circumstances under which Windows product keys can be stored in the BIOS of a system ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Referring to your article in the nwfdailynews.com website titled ...

In brief For the longest time Windows PCs came with a product key sticker that was placed outside of the machine or with your computer's manuals. But in recent years manufacturers started storing this ...