- #How to convert to windows 10 license key#
- #How to convert to windows 10 install#
- #How to convert to windows 10 update#
- #How to convert to windows 10 upgrade#
- #How to convert to windows 10 pro#
Windows will again restart your computer. Windows will restart your computer and you’ll get “Adding features” screen. It’ll show “Preparing for upgrade” message and you’ll see the progress percentage.
#How to convert to windows 10 upgrade#
Click on “ Start” button and Windows 10 will start the upgrade process. You won’t be able to use this device until it’s done.ĥ. The upgrade might take a while and this device will restart. Before you start, make sure to save your work and close any apps. Upgrading your edition will add new features to Windows. Look for “ Upgrade your edition of Windows” section. Here you’ll see the installed edition type as “Windows 10 Home Single Language” or any other lower edition of Windows 10.ģ. PS: Alternatively, You can directly launch this page using “ ms-settings:activation” command in RUN dialog box as mentioned here.
#How to convert to windows 10 update#
Now go to Update & Security -> Activation section. Open Settings app from Start Menu or by pressing WIN+I keys together.Ģ.
#How to convert to windows 10 pro#
Just check out following easy steps to change your Windows 10 Home edition in Windows 10 Pro edition quickly and easily without any need of reinstallation:ġ. If you also installed Windows 10 Home edition in your computer by mistake or if the setup didn’t allow you to select Pro edition at installation time or your new computer came preinstalled with Windows 10 Home edition and now you want to convert it into Windows 10 Pro edition without formatting and reinstalling Windows in your computer, following steps will help you. So I used a built-in mechanism present in Windows 10 which allows users to upgrade lower Windows 10 editions to higher editions such as Pro edition. To do this, I needed to format and reinstall Windows 10 and then follow the above mentioned trick to choose Pro edition at installation time.īut I didn’t want to format and reinstall Windows in my computer. Let’s come back to the issue! Windows 10 forcefully installed Home edition in my computer and now I wanted to convert it into Pro edition as I already had a product key of Pro edition.
#How to convert to windows 10 install#
In future, if you decide to install your desired Windows 10 edition in any computer and want to force Windows 10 setup to allow you to choose the edition at installation time, you can follow the trick mentioned in above article. Unable to Select Windows 10 Pro Edition During Clean Installation You can read more about the procedure in following tutorial: The installer automatically installs Windows 10 Home edition without their permission.īonus Tip: A few years back, when Windows 10 was released first time for public, I posted a tutorial to force Windows 10 setup to choose the edition type at installation time.
#How to convert to windows 10 license key#
Even if they have a genuine product key or license key of Windows 10 Pro edition, the Windows 10 setup doesn’t allow them to select or install Pro edition. I’m sure many people face this problem several times. Now when I reinstalled latest version of Windows 10, it automatically activated itself using the saved digital license at Microsoft servers which was connected with Windows 10 Home Single Language edition. When I started using it and connected to Internet, it was activated successfully and the activation status was saved or stored at Microsoft servers as a digital license (previously called digital entitlement). It should have installed Windows 10 Pro edition as the machine was having the same edition before format and reinstallation.Īctually when I purchased this computer, it came preinstalled with Windows 10 Home Single Language edition. When Windows 10 was installed, I checked the activation status using Settings -> Update & Security -> Activation page and I was surprised to see that it was showing “ Windows 10 Home Single Language” edition installed in the computer. It also didn’t ask to enter any product key at installation time. The setup didn’t ask to select Windows 10 edition. I downloaded the offline ISO file of Windows 10 ( using this article), copied it to bootable USB drive ( how-to guide) and installed Windows 10 new version in the computer. The machine was having Windows 10 Professional edition previously. Recently I installed the latest Windows 10 version in one of my computers. If you have a product key (license key) of Windows 10 Pro edition but you mistakenly installed Windows 10 Home edition in your computer, you can convert the installed Home edition into Pro edition without formatting and reinstalling Windows with the help of this tutorial.
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