Built a budget setup for my nephew who needed something basic for schoolwork and light design projects. We reused an old system and installed Windows, but ran into activation problems right away. Since we couldn’t justify buying a full license for that old hardware, we started comparing how others dealt with similar cases. Reading experiences on https://microsoft.pissedconsumer.com/review.html made it clear how common these issues are, especially with activation errors that support sometimes struggles to resolve quickly.