Update Windows 8 to Free Windows 8.1 (If You Haven’t Already)
Here’s how to start Windows 8.1 into Desktop mode - bypassing the new, improved tile-based look - plus a couple of other tricks. Well, if you don’t like improvement, are simply a Luddite or just fondly miss the Windows Desktop, you can take matters into your own hands. That obsession, along with a need to keep about 100,000 employees occupied, resulted in Windows 8’s improvements over Windows 7 - the strange omission of the Start button and the hiding of the Windows Desktop, that icon-studded screen we used to launch into. Improving our lot has been a fixation throughout virtually all of human history, so it shouldn’t come as any great surprise that Microsoft couldn’t help itself when it became time to update its OS - an OS that we had all learned to use expertly over the last 20 years or so. You may be transferred to another department to activate the key before it can be used.Windows 8’s blah reception from many computer users may have been due at least in part to a peculiar trait that we humans have, and that’s our obsession with improvement. Follow additional any additional activation instructions provided to you by the agent.Read it back to confirm you have written it down correctly. Write down the product key exactly as it is read to you by the agent.Provide the representative with any requested information, which may include your computer's serial number (if Windows 8 came with your PC), information from Windows 8 DVD (if you have the media), and your credit card details once your request is processed. Tell the representative that you can't access your Windows 8 product key.
Follow the phone prompts to reach an agent who handles product key issues.This is a paid Microsoft support line ($40-60 per issue), but you will not be charged for support if you are just calling to purchase a replacement product key. If you are still having trouble finding your product key, you can purchase a replacement key for $10 from a Microsoft support agent. Contact Microsoft to request a new product key.
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