Chrome Turn Off Hardware Acceleration

Today I worked on a PC and found Chrome not working. It opened to a blank screen so how do you get to settings to turn of hardware acceleration? You can't.

Obviously this PC does not have a problem.

Find the Chrome.exe file and create a shortcut. Add this switch in the target.

Now you can open Chrome and access settings.

Windows Activation

2022-10-26 on Win 10-11 an easy way to find key info is "ShowKeyPlus" from the Microsoft Store.

Yes, we all hate the Microsoft Store.

It is possible your Windows 7 install has a digital activation and no key need to be manually entered. You may be able to install Win10 and it will automatically detect the hardware key.

To be on the safe side, you should retrieve the existing key before install in case you need it.

First, if you need to find the key installed on your authenticated version, try this:
Nirsoft Produkey

Only problem with Nirsoft is Antivirus will block and you will need to allow it to run.

Nirsoft is most reliable. I have not had the two methods give different results but it is possible.

(There should be a sticker somewhere on the PC with this number.)
(When entering a key do not use spaces)

You can find an existing installed Windows 10 key with this cmd

(be sure you are in the system32 dir)

wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

Hint: UVK shows key in "system" tab

I use a lot of refurbished PCs. Often they have Windows 10 for refurbs keys but sometimes these keys don't work. It is so easy to fake authenticate without having a key that I never pursued getting the keys to work. This is something I intend to try . . .