If your auditors are unaware of this, then they are living in cloud cuckoo-land. ALL machines supplied by HP (everywhere!) with Win 7 Pro will have the following Key 74T2M-DKDBC-788W3-H689G-6P6GT They will also have a COA sticker on them with the COA_SLP Key which is specific to that machine. The problem here is the difference between OWM_SLP Keys, and COA_SLP Keys. See below for snippets from MS conversations and the other forums ref this key
Many thanks and any help/advice much appreciated
My question is is this correct and if so how do I get the unique key that is partnered to my laptop? Or is what I have been advised incorrect and I have had a dodgy license key for the past 3 years? I have also found some indication that this is a 'common' key of some sort - see below. After various discussions with MS support I understand that HP can deactivate the key after a hardware change. When I entered this in the validate license key it errored and it also failed on the W10 clean install. I used an app, Belarc, to retriev the license keys from an SSD clone I have of the main SSD, This was 74T2M-DKDBC-788W3-H689G-6P6GT. My laptop doesn't have a sticker, I believe from MS support this is common and HP embed the license key in the hardware. I recently had to change my SSD and reinstall the OS using the HP CD.