You will need your windows 8 activated before customizing your Windows, i.e. While skipping a product key during the installation is nice, it won’t get you too far as it used to be. Sorry, couldn’t take a clearer shot but you get the idea. Clicking that will lead you to finish up the installation without typing in a valid product key. Now, you will see there is a Skip button you used to see all the time back to Windows 7 time. All steps are the same, until you reach to the point where you put in the product key. Once you have the media ready, you can boot off it to start the installation process again.
And Channel can be Retail or OEM, while VL can be set to 1 for true or 0 for false.īut I found it will be a lot easier if you have created the bootable USB drive, since you can create and edit the ei.cfg file directly into the USB file system.
#Where to find activation key windows 8.1 iso#
(click here to follow step-by-step how to modify ISO file) Įdition ID can be Core, Professional, or Enterprise, depending on the ISO image file you have. I believe there are reasons why Microsoft has put a stop sign on this but there are also valid situations where skipping a product key during the installation also makes sense.īasically, you will need to extract the files from Windows 8 ISO file, add a file named ei.cfg in sources folder, with the following content, and re-wrap up the ISO file.
One of the things I quite miss the old way in Windows 7 is to skip the product key input during the installation.
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