


Mach2 manages the Feature Store, a core component of Feature Control, where these switches live. Everyone else, however, would continue to use production code and be none the wiser. Teams needing to work with this pre-production code can easily flip a switch on their Windows machines – like Feature_FluentNotepadWorkForMaryJo. The latter bit is important it helps teams – like the Notepad team – safely work on changes in a constantly evolving master codebase, reducing costly integration efforts and boosting transparency. Rather than formatting your PC, do a factory reset and then install Windows 10 straight away, and activation should work – or do an in-place upgrade using an installer you create with the Windows 10 Media creation tool, then use the same media to do a clean install once you've successfully activated your copy of Windows and Microsoft has issued the digital entitlement for your PC.The free open source tool Mach2 is developed by Rafael Rivera, and allows unblocking hidden OS features.įeature Control is a system used to gate off new and unfinished features from production users in production code. If you clean install Windows 10 (which often gives you a better result on problematic systems) instead of doing a simple in-place upgrade, you can run into problems activating. This is usually painless, but you can't do it online.

If you've upgraded to Windows 10 and then made major changes to your hardware – especially changing your motherboard, which counts for a lot of points in the scheme Microsoft uses to check if you're still using the same PC – then you'll have to activate by phoning Microsoft. If you want to join the preview now, you have to upgrade to the release version of Windows 10 first and activate it, and then change your updates to Get Insider Builds. If you were part of the Windows 10 Insider Preview before launch, you can't use the same product keys that you might have had for the technical preview they won't even activate old builds any more.
