
I’ve spoken with a Microsoft support man directly about transferring ‘OEM’ (prestinalled by PC manufacturer) Windows for this very problem. Instead, this will be embedded in the BIOS. One of the improvements Microsoft is making to Activation 3.0 for newly built machines that come preloaded with Windows 8, you won’t have a COA (Certificate of Authenticity) sticker attached to the machine anymore. This has several advantages, both for Microsoft and OEMs as it is no longer that easy to "steal" product keys this way, and for users who do not have to worry about fading text or damaged labels on their laptops. What this means is that the installer will automatically recognize the product key and use it during installation and activation of the Windows 8 operating system.

Device manufacturers are embedding the product key in the BIOS of the motherboard. The question that should come up at this point is how you are going to reinstall the operating system without the product key. Rebooting sometimes fixes the problem, but it's more reliable to uninstall the drivers, reboot, and reinstall.If you have purchased a laptop running Windows 8 recently you may have noticed that it may not contain a small label on the back side or battery compartment listing the operating system's product key. "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. The driver for the broken device is AwVUsbD64.sys and the status is Instead, there's a "RealPortUSB Host Controller - 0" device with a yellow warning symbol on it in the "Universal Serial Bus controllers" section of Device Manager.

In this case, I can connect to remote serial terminals with no problems.īut if I disconnect in AnywhereUSB and try reconnecting, the COM port doesn't come back. The first time I connect to a Remote Hub in AnywhereUSB, the new "USB Serial Port (COM#)" shows up in "Ports (COM & LPT)" in Windows Device Manager.
