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excellent what's up guys in my recent monthly builds video as well as a couple other random build videos that I've done in the past say month or two I have gotten a repeated question and that is hey Paul you mentioned this website kinguin or something like that and you mentioned getting Windows 10 on the cheap so I decided to make a video specifically about that I'm gonna walk you through my process of actually purchasing a Windows 10 license from King wind net that's ki ng u I n so like penguin with a king its costs about nineteen or twenty dollars u.s. from there I'm going to go through the process of installing it on this the little computer that I built for my parents just recently and and hopefully you guys will learn a little bit of something and maybe find a new source for getting yourself a Windows license because lord knows every time I put a new computer together I don't necessarily want to drop another hundred bucks on getting Windows for it but windows in a lot of situations is just kind of required if you build your own computer Linux and all that stuff yes we could get into our argument that's not what this video is about anyway apart from a built computer without an operating system on it you will need a USB Drive I'm using an eight gig one but you need for gigs minimum and I do recommend going with a USB 2.0 go little old-school with this one don't get the newer USB three or 3.1 drives just for compatibility sake stick with USB two and I'll show you how to get that installed in just a second now I should give full disclosure here about my association with kinguin net there is none I I don't know anyone there apart from following them on Twitter recently this is not paid or anything like that I was originally introduced to kinguin net through the website called fast to play fast number to play which is a website I was introduced to by my friend Steve who likes to buy video games on the cheap anyway fast to play was purchased or acquired or merged with kinguin net so as I was going too fast to play to like buy cheap games I was redirected here and I've discovered that they also have Windows licenses so if you just go and search for Windows you can find us well they'll have varying licenses available I'm sure they have stock that comes and goes and all that kind of thing but look at look here Windows 10 Professional OEM key this is the one I'm going to be getting it's $19 right now if you are shopping here bear in mind some of these things like worldwide you will want to pay attention to the where the software is eligible so definitely make sure it's got that worldwide worldwide indicator unfortunately all these Windows licenses do and also hey if you don't want Windows 10 they've also got Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 and if you do get seven or eight or 8.1 you will be able to you'll almost be forced to upgrade to Windows 10 eventually but that is a way if you want to start off with something that you're a bit more familiar with in the upgrade to Windows 10 in the future you can do that I do want to point out here a significant difference here between what and om key is and what a retail key is not that I can click and drag these or anything like that but om is Original Equipment Manufacturer basically if you buy an OEM key you are saying that I and the manufacturer of this of this computer which I am comfortable doing if you guys are a little bit worried or if it's your first time or if you just want to make sure that if something happens in the future you might consider paying that extra 20 bucks or so to get yourself a retail key the main difference that I found between the OEM and retail key is going to be in the future if you ever make a hardware change or an update or something like that if you have an OEM key and you try to contact Microsoft for assistance with activation they will probably not help you they'll say go to your system manufacturer and you'd be like I am the system manufacturing then they'd be like well you should be able to solve your own problem in if you ever have had a situation with a Windows license deactivating or something like that calling in or using the automated lines for activation is not that difficult but it is much more much more effective with retail key have any real try it with an OEM key now if you're super nervous about buying a Windows license for $20 you know like this can't this just can't be legit drop an extra dollar and nine cents on the King Wynn buyer protection and that will allow you to you know if you try to activate it and it says don't work then you know kinguin will will support you and give you a refund hopefully something like that anyway oh look add-on items that's pretty common in websites moving right along to our checkout anyway we go through checkout guys I'll be right back so I was able to checkout with PayPal my total was like twenty dollars and eighty-eight cents and then after the transaction goes through you get an email letting you know it's okay you can go to the kinguin website then you go to your games and then you click on show the key and I have the key already over here I'm not going to show you guys the keys my key but then you can also either go straight to the Microsoft website or if you go to the activation instructions on kinguin it will redirect you over here to actually download Windows 10 I don't want to upgrade now I want to create a USB DVD or ISO so we want to what what do we do here read all this information to make sure you have what you need and then you're going to download a tool and that will help you to create your media the media creation tool exe I'm just going to go ahead and open that and oh god okay that's fine everything's fine and then this will pop you into this Windows 10 setup thing and again I'm not going to show you guys all the gritty details for this but basically take your USB Drive and plug it into a USB port okay so will definitely accept these license terms did I mention at the beginning when I was telling you guys what you needed for this that you do need another computer a separate working computer to make this yeah I probably should have mentioned that but hopefully it goes without saying anyway create installation media for another PC language Edition architecture sure yeah we definitely want 64-bit don't go 32 go 64 use recommended options ok share you I recommended options that's fine we're doing it on a USB flash drive so I'll hit next we will select the flash drive it's the only one connected hit next again and then it's going to go through the procedures for making the Windows 10 installation media I'll let this go and I'll be right back alright we've hit 100 percent USB flash drive is ready it took maybe 15 to 20 minutes all told that was to download and set up the USB Drive and that's going to depend based on your downloads they're very based on your download speeds I'm just going to hit finish and lastly well not lastly but next I'm going to switch over here so I can start capturing what's going on in the system so I'll be right back I'm also going to well I can this grab the actual USB drive and plug it into this system into a USB 2.0 port not a USB 3.0 again USB 2.0 in my experience with windows installations leads to less complications I don't know if that's the fact if that's the same with Windows 10 or not but I'm just going to do it I lost audio while I was recording this next part but here's how things happened I was able to boot up the system without having to go into the BIOS and change the boot device which was nice and went straight through the USB and then went to the Windows 10 installer the Windows 10 installer will ask for that product key right up front fortunately my new key worked just fine to move on with the installation process on this next menu I will always choose custom installation and I like to delete any existing partitions off of the drive that I'm installing too now another 10 to 15-minute wait while files copy over and then an automatic reboot after that you go through the Windows 10 setup procedures fortunately the system rebooted itself um I went and booted straight off of the SSD as it should have I did go into the advanced setup procedures to pretty much turn off as much tracking stuff as I possibly could and here's a big big shout-out to my friend Jerry aka barnacle ease if you guys really wants to dig into the Windows 10 settings and get rid of a lot of the windows 10 spying stuff or just activity tracking and monitoring and then that kind of thing I will link his video in the description as well so you can check that out and get Windows 10 set up a little bit more precisely that's it to root out some of those Windows is watching you type features anyway though after another minute or two of final setup stuff just like that Windows 10 is installed since my main question here is whether or not this key will activate I'm going to pull up the activation settings right away and only now will I actually plug in the Internet to this new computer windows will automatically activate if there is an internet connection so without me doing anything the message updated that Windows had activated as soon as the internet connection appeared it looks like my kinguin om key is legit the moment of truth that was the like will this work I wanted that's this computer with that key I just purchased connecting to the Windows servers and Windows server is saying hey you're good to go with your Windows 10 Pro om key many bucks so hey I'm happy with that it seems to have worked right off the bat even though I got cables running in front of me let me mention a couple closing thoughts here before I finish out this video um one is I learned that kinguin net is based in Hong Kong I don't know if that's important or not two would be an alternative cheap windows purchasing solution that I have used in the past is reddit's the subreddit micro set Microsoft software swap where you can also get very inexpensive just just installation keys for not just Windows but also like Microsoft's Office suite and that kind of thing I've used that before it worked good for me for office however I had two systems that I got Windows Keys for one Windows 7 and one Windows 8 that deactivated like months later so I went through this it activated it said it was fine and then months later suddenly I got a message hey your keys invalid I did contact the guy on Microsoft software sawed the swap that I got it from it was just it was a person rather than a company like kinguin net so anyway that's why I've gone this route rather than that route all of that route is is also viable I guess but I feel a little bit safer doing this and also doing that little you know $1 for a buyer protection as well so that if this did have a problem you can go right back to kinguin net the final thing I checked out just looking a little bit closer at the kinguin net website is actually these keys are sold by third parties so kinguin is kind of acting like an Amazon Marketplace seller and these sellers are selling the keys through it so there's actually a bunch of sellers of these keys who had them listed for 20 bucks each which means that you know you're getting them from different locations but Qinglin seems to be standing behind them and again you know pay a dollar for that buyer protection and I think you'll be all set to go anyway guys I hope you've learned a little bit from this video whether it's about the general procedure for installing Windows 10 or maybe just a much less expensive means of getting Windows 10 versus paying the 80 200 bucks buying it at retail again consider those retail keys that are available say 40 ish or 40 to $50 if you do want a little bit more back-end support from Microsoft but I think om in this case is going to do just fine anyway thanks a lot for watching this video you appreciate it it hit the 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