Tag: Activation

Enable Windows 10 Extended Security Updates

On October 14, 2025, Windows 10 reached end of life and no longer receives updates. To keep getting updates, you must upgrade to Windows 11 or enroll in the Windows 10 ESU (Extended Security Updates) program. In this post, I will show you step by step how to enable the commercial Windows 10 Extended Security…

slmgr.vbs

slmgr.vbs is the Windows Software Licensing Management Tool, a Microsoft Visual Basic script that comes with Windows and is a core part of the Windows activation system. The full path is C:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs. You can use slmgr.vbs to troubleshoot, activate, change, and uninstall your Windows activation. In this post, I will show you how to use…

Active Directory Based Activation

There are many ways to activate Windows, and a really cool way to activate Windows is with Active Directory-Based Activation. Active Directory-Based Activation (ADBA) was first introduced in Windows Server 2012 and is only usable if your Microsoft Volume licensing has a KMS host key. If you don’t have a KMS key, you may need…