Activating Windows Tiny 10 OS on an HP Stream

[EACBOSS]

Due to the fact that the HP Stream only has a 32G internal hard drive, I tried to use Tiny 10 ( a bloatware free version of Windows 10.)  It works fine but won't allow me to activate it.  When I try it tells me my product key is invalid.  I verified the digital key and tried to enter it manually in the activation block.  Anyone dealing with this planned obsolescence issue?

[banhien]

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@EACBOSS wrote:

...  I tried to use Tiny 10 ( a bloatware free version of Windows 10.)  It works fine but won't allow me to activate it.  When I try it tells me my product key is invalid. ..

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@EACBOSS 

You have to ask Microsoft. Looks like it is an illegal copy of Windows 10. Well you can rebuild Windows 10 on your mahine using Cloud Recovery tool

                  https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06162205

Regards.

Regards.

[EACBOSS]

@Banhien there is nothing illegal about the Windows Key that was encoded into the Stream machine.  The bloatware version of Windows 10 now occupies the entire 32G... that's why I want to use the Tiny version of Windows (it only requires 17 Gig.)  Asking Microsoft anything is like shouting in a well and hoping there is someone down there!

[EACBOSS]

If the key is illegal then HP is placing illegal key codes in the system tatoo.  It is bad enough the Stream is limited to a 32 Gig system hard drive but embedding an invalid/illegal activation code is criminal.

[nostalgiacafe]

Thanks for posting this

I have 2 follow up questions:

1) What Stream Device are you using? I am Trying this on a Stream 7

2) What version of Tiny 10 did you use - Where did you get it? 

3) If you were successful with a Stream 7 or 8 how were you able to use the 64-bit version? 

- Ok that was 3 questions - Thanks! 

[Stuart-Clark]

I got the same situation running Tiny10 with my aged HP laotop, it is running so smoothly, but I had no idea how to activate it , finally I got a Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 Product Key from keyingo.com, it activated the Tiny 10 successfully

[EACBOSS]

Thank you I'll try than when I get a chance... to bad the HP tattooed license wouldn't work.