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Om Prakash
Om Prakash

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Found a 75%-off lifetime Windows fix when half our machines started expiring at 2 AM

Picture this: middle of a release, 40+ refurbished dev boxes suddenly screaming “Your Windows license will expire soon.” Remote devs locked out, deadline breathing down our necks.
Usual fixes?
→ slmgr /rearm (one-time)
→ KMS (hell no)
→ Retail keys (budget gone)
Then I found this random blog that casually drops the real 2025 solution nobody talks about: Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher lifetime licenses — fully legit, compliant, and ~75% cheaper than retail.
The post walks through every cause, every slmgr command, and exactly how companies (and broke startups) are licensing hundreds of machines without getting murdered by Microsoft pricing.
Saved our sprint. Saved our sanity.
If you run even one Windows box, bookmark this before it bites you: Click here to read
Anyone else secretly using MAR licenses yet? Feels like cheating… but it’s 100% legal.

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