Windows 10: I bought a second PC and I have a pirate version of windows 11 on it.

I want to resolve my pc issues by removing pirate version and installing a licensed version. The person I bought it off deceived me. I purchased a new product key online but it still won’t update I feel I need to buy windows 11 license to resolve issue.Can I download a license and will it resolve it or do I need to remove dodgy version first?

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Downgrading from a pirated Windows OS

You've already mangled your existing operating system by upgrading to a pirated version of Windows 10. Use your Windows 8.1 disk to do a new installation of your original Windows 8.1 operating system. If you have saved the product key from your original Windows 8.1 operating system, then use that product key again to install Windows 8.1.

You can downgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 8, by following the instructions in the answers to this question: How can I downgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 8?. Why not downgrade the pirated Windows 10 to Windows 8 instead and then change the product key and upgrade legally back to Windows 10? There are two reasons for not doing it this way:

1. Your new Windows 10 can inherit problems from the pirated version of Windows 10.
   
2. It's a two-step process to install Windows 8.1 and upgrade to Windows 10 instead of a four-step cumulative history: Windows 8.1 -> pirated Windows 10 -> downgrade pirated Windows 10 to Windows 8.1 -> upgrade to Windows 10. Even though the two-step method doesn't save any time, it still eliminates two unnecessary steps.
   

 

Pirated windows 11 reset

Hey hi I have bought a dos laptop and due to some reasons I get the 0xc000007b error so I am looking to reset my pc but since I have a pirated version of windows 11pro by resetting it will i removenor delete the key

 

pirated version of windows

They don't.

Look up "reduced functionality"

And pirated versions are normally include malware.