windows 10 free upgrade asking for product key

Windows XP was great for getting past all of this nonsense and control, but all newer versions of Windows got more protective and silly. So you think it’s all wonderful and happy….and the installer thinks URRGHH, I can’t see a file named…ĮI.CFG, I can only see a file named EI.CFG.TXT, and it gets ignored 🙁 and then it still asks for a licence number. TXT file extension.īut Windows sees it as EI.CFG.TXT and it hides the TXT bit from you. Windows thinks HEY, THIS IS A TEXT FILE !!!….Īnd it automatically hides the. Once you start making up your own ‘special’ files like the EI.CFG thing, Windows gets confused sometimes, and here’s an example of what can happen….Ĭreate TXT file as mentioned on here, paste the text into it as instructed. It makes it easy for a computer to know what to do with a file when you double-click on it, so a JPG file opens as a picture, a TXT file opens as a text document, a BMP is another type of picture, you get the idea?, the thing is, this is easy BUT microsoft decided in their infinate widom (i use the term loosly!) that users don’t need to ‘see’ file extensions, so on many versions and setups of Windows, those essential 3 letters are hidden….the files icon will still show it’s a JPG or a TXT file, but Windows will hide the JPG and TXT extension….and here’s where it gets silly…. To make it make sense, the user must understand what a file extension is before they start creating and renaming these txt files….Ī file extension, is a very simple idea that dates back a couple of decades now. It’s really really important that whenevr you make files such as this EI.CFG file, you understand just what’s going on….įor ‘many’ users (i see this often at work), the computer the EI.CFG file is created on, isn’t setup to show FILE EXTENSIONS (i don’t mean that as shouting, I just need it emphasised).

There’s a lot of messages here, too many for me to go through, but I hope this bit of info can help….

Windows 10 free upgrade asking for product key