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>Good advice about saving activation keys. On a thumb drive, not the hard drive. I already have a text file on it with user IDs, passwords, etc. but it doesn't have activation keys. Yet.
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>As it turns out I didn't need a license key. There is a button which lets you skip that. Windows is not installed. There is still a lot of work reinstalling apps and restoring data from the external hard drive but it's great being past this first step.

Oh, but you will need a license key - think you have 30 days to activate window