Activation Methods Chart

Below is a comparison of activation methods offered by Microsoft Activation Scripts.

Basics

	HWID	Ohook	KMS38	Online KMS	ZeroCID[1]	StaticCID[1:1]	KMS4k[1:2]
Works offline	🔴	🟢	🟢	🔴	🟢	🔴	🟢
Activation is permanent	🟢	🟢	🟢[2]	🟢[3]	🟢	🟢	🟢[4]
Does not leave any files in the system to maintain activation status	🟢	🔴	🟢	🔴	🟢	🟢	🟢

Persistence

	HWID	Ohook	KMS38	Online KMS	ZeroCID[1:3]	StaticCID[1:4]	KMS4k[1:5]
Persists between hardware changes	🔴	🟢	🔴	🟢	🟢	🔴	🟢
Persists between clean installations on the same hardware	🟢	🔴	🔴	🔴	🔴	🔴	🔴
Persists between Windows 10 / 11 feature upgrades	🟢	🟢	🟢	🟢	🔴	🔴	🔴

Support

	HWID	Ohook	KMS38	Online KMS	ZeroCID[1:6]	StaticCID[1:7]	KMS4k[1:8]
Windows Vista / 7	🔴	🔴	🔴	🟢[5]	🟢	🔴	🟢[5:1]
Windows 8 / 8.1	🔴	🔴	🔴	🟢[5:2]	🟢	🟢	🟢[5:3]
Windows 10 / 11	🟢	🔴	🟢[5:4]	🟢[5:5]	🟢	🟢	🟢[5:6]
Windows 11 (26100.4188 and later)	🟢	🔴	🟢[5:7]	🟢[5:8]	🔴	🟢	🟢[5:9]
Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2	🔴	🔴	🔴	🟢	🟢	🔴	🟢
Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2	🔴	🔴	🔴	🟢	🟢	🟢	🟢
Windows Server 2016 and later	🔴	🔴	🟢	🟢	🟢	🟢	🟢
Office 2010	🔴	🟢	🔴	🟢[5:10]	🔴	🔴	🔴
Office 2013 and later	🔴	🟢	🔴	🟢[5:11]	🟢[6]	🟢[6:1]	🟢[5:12] [6:2]
Windows / Office KMS Host	🔴	🔴	🔴	🔴	🟢	🟢	🔴
Windows Extended Security Updates	🔴	🔴	🔴	🔴	🟢	🟢	🔴
OCUR / RP / APPXLOB addons	🔴	🔴	🔴	🔴	🟢	🟢	🔴

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1. Provided by TSforge. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

2. Valid until the year 2038. ↩︎

3. Valid for 180 days by default. Permanent with renewal task installed. ↩︎

4. Valid for 4083 years. ↩︎

5. Volume activation capable editions only. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

6. Supported only on Windows 8 and later; subscription editions are not supported. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎