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Some licenses limit the amount of PCs you can install Windows on, making things complicated for transfers of single licenses. Usually, this is an activation issue where your operating system is trying to confirm that you’re transferring the license to a new computer as opposed to adding it to another. In some cases, the installation doesn’t go as smoothly as described above, and Windows will throw an error at you. You’ll often find that instead of booting directly to the desktop, the OS interrupts the booting process with a screen that says “Setting Up Devices.” This is Windows gathering information about your new hardware and adjusting to the appropriate drivers.