Martin, is that at the windows login screen?
My corporate laptop is encrypted with bitlock which has a pin challenge, before Windows boots.

I'd be very surprised if it didn't have a TPM module, I'd say they just enforce the additional pin.

For reasons that I'm not entirely clear about, I seem to type more accurately on this short-throw membrane keyboard than I did on my previous clicky Logitech keyboard. It makes a satisfying 'thunk', too. The mouse is very smooth on high-DPI setting and also has a low clunk rather than a click sound.

It remains to be seen how long the charge lasts but I like the integration with Windows that shows me their state of charge.

I'm still waiting for it on my Surface, if that makes you feel any better.

It's going to depend on the vendors reworking their drivers.

Hmm, excessive you say?

I've got north of 24TB over various machines, only 4TB on the NAS mind you and my main daily driver machine has 500GB NVMe, 1TB SATA SSD, 1 x 2TB and 1 x 4TB mechanical HDD.

Then there's all the other computers . . . hard drives in draws and my USB stick farm     

Anyhoots, I digress . . . I just pulled what was my main machine out of storage, where it's been since 2016 when I went to China. It didn't POST so after a process of elimination I deduced it was either the motherboard or the CPU. It's rare for a CPU to go down if you don't overclock it and cool it correctly, so I took a punt and ordered a new motherboard, as I couldn't test the CPU. After putting it on the bench (dining room table) and reassembling it, success it was the MB and all worked fine, so I slapped on a new SSD and set about installing Windows.

Now here's the bit I found interesting, as I didn't expect it after changing a MB and both hard drives. I installed Windows 10 Pro and it automatically activated with a digital licence on the components remaining (I never put a key in during installation), which were the CPU and 2 x 8GB sticks of RAM. I expected to have to put a licence key in after a MB and HDD change, but it seems Windows uses the CPU, or maybe a percentage snapshot, so if enough remains they re-licence you. I'm going to test that theory out by changing the RAM too and trying a new install, where I only use the CPU from my original Windows 10 machine from 2016.

I think that's pretty cool TBH, as farting around with licence keys was always a pain and Microsoft seem to be quite relaxed about their W10 licensing now, which is also good.

What isn't good however is all the bloatware in W10 these days, but running a quick script can strip all that out. There are some really good ones on GitHub, which I also find intriguing as their parent organisation is Microsoft.

Maybe it's an info resource for them, where they can see what people are doing to change Windows installs and use that information for development? The first thing I do to Windows after I install it is change it . . . quite a bit too, somewhat of a deep clean

That is rather a lot - I thought mine was nerdy, but that's super nerdy

Yeah Slinger, but this was a new OEM motherboard so it wouldn't be in the BIOS and I had made significant changes to the original hardware, so that info in your post was my previous understanding, which is why I was surprised as the hardware was different . . . if that makes sense?

I suspect it's the CPU architecture they use for DIY builds, as I would doubt RAM would be used for hardware activation. It makes sense to use the CPU though, as that in my experience is the most reliable element, unless you pour liquid nitrogen over it and clock it to 8GHz!

I always click the 'I don't have a product key link' during an install and it was quite awhile before I actually plugged an Ethernet cable in (I never have that in during an install either), as I didn't want them fooking with it, as it was build 1511 (current is 2004).

Haha, me neither . . . but I'm on a mission now to find out!