Re: Windows Home
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I am looking at purchasing a new Surface Pro 7+ with the 12.3" touchscreen. It comes with Windows 11 Home. I am reasonably sure I will prefer to have Pro instead. What is the cost for the activation key to make that happen?? I cannot find a place on the store to answer this question.
Thank you. I am purchasing the Surface soon. My problem was I had no way to get to those screens. The $99 price tag is about what I expected. Any idea how long it takes to activate and/or configure? Presumably it's already installed and just a "switch" that gets turned on or is there a massive download & install?
Seems like Keyingo only sells the full version of Windows 11 Pro, not the upgrade from Home to Pro. If a computer already has Windows 11 Home pre-loaded, would the full version of Windows 11 Pro still work for me?@adgmiea
In over 3 decades of installing Windows both in a professional corporate setting and at home, I have never taken less than four hours to do a clean install of any incarnation of Microsoft Windows. It generally takes that long just install all the latest updates.
My brand new XPS-15 arrives today - obtained at short notice with Windows 10 Home edition installed. I only use Windows 10 Pro edition. What is the most straightforward way for me to upgrade to the Pro edition - ideally retaining a Dell installation image (with all the Dell add-ins, drivers etc). I do not intend activating the Home version.
I'm hoping that the current installation already has the pro features present (but locked) and can only be 'unlocked' by a Pro License Key. That would be great - is that way forward feasible. Please comment on whether a Dell(OEM) license key would be required or a Microsoft Sourced one.
To upgrade from Windows 10 Home if you have a Windows 10 product key:
Select the Start button, then select Settings > Update & security > Activation.
Select Change product key, and then enter the 25-character Windows 10 Pro product key.
Select Next to start the upgrade to Windows 10 Pro
@EddieZe Wow that ! Sorry to hear that... Does not look good for me then, that's exactly what I need to do. But "Tech specialist" (or something like that) here told me that it should work no problem.
Clearly there is a problem here. As others have reported it is NOT as easy as entering a Pro License Key. That fails for me as it has failed for others. Dell should have a documented path from home to pro that works and document that on dell.com. OR they should tell us why an upgrade won't work. I ended up in the Windows 10 Enterprise state after a failed update after entering the lic key. Microsoft said only a clean install using a Windows 10 Pro image off a USB bootable drive would work. It didn't as when you boot from the USB drive it cannot see they main drive for some (possible secure boot related) reason.
Here is what worked for me:
After you try to activate from Win 10 Home to Pro and get the error message, try to install windows updates and than restart your PC, than come back to This COmputer, go to change product key and insert your new win 10 pro product key. The activation was successful for me after this. Hope this helps someone - btw, I have Dell G5 - 5500, brand new with win 10 home.
Have a nice day guys.
Step 8 : Install temporarily a generic license key that allows to upgrade to Pro. This will trigger the upgrade, then reboot the computer several times. This generic key but cannot be activated, so you'll need your own Pro license key to setup immediately after the upgrade. Copy and paste the following instructions in the command line prompt and type enter :
Network shares - IDEALLY migrate everything to OneDrive/SharePoint then local file sync is a snap. IF you have CIFS/SMB shares then you have to have hybrid joined machines (AzureAD, On-prem AD) - then you have to watch out for GPO conflicts with Intune (GPO used to win always, but they may be changing that now).
I was able to convert our devices from Home to WIn10 Pro. Log in the device, connect to O365 and allow it to be managed by your organization. Once this is done you should see your device in AD. Once it got added, I added it to our device configuration group, and some of the settings installed. Once updateing all of the windows updates, it changed the version of the operating system. I went to the device in AD, the clicked WIPE. Once the wipe completed, the device came up normally as WIN10 Pro
I just finished upgrading to windows 11 home from windows 10 home and decided I would like to purchase windows 11 pro. I used the link in settings to upgrade my version of windows. I bought the 99 dollar windows pro from within the Microsoft store. It showed the purchase was successful and a button appeared saying install now.
I restarted my computer to see if that would fix the issue. As I restarted, my computer said it was performing updates. When it finished performing updates, my computer turned back on it now how's that I have windows enterprise installed and it will not let me activate. The trouble shooter does not work and it displays the error code 0xc004c003.
My my Microsoft account shows my purchase of windows 11 pro but it doesn't give me an access to a product key. When I click on more details it takes me to a broken link within Microsoft website saying this page no longer exists.
if you upgrade from Windows 11 Home to Pro , please follow these steps :
1Select Start > Settings > System > Activation.
2Under Upgrade your edition of Windows, select Open Store
3Select "I have a Windows 10/11 Pro Product Key", then input the product key
4: If you have any error warning , please reboot your PC and try it again
and I get my windows 11 pro key from the microsoft partner online store keyingo.com, and i upgrade with the key and follow the instructions without any problems
I am having the same problem and spent two hours on the phone with Microsoft. They said I had to upgrade my Windows 11 home, but it would wipe out
every other application on my computer that wasn't a Microsoft product. This is a new laptop with Windows 11 so I don't know why I would have to upgrade it
to use the key to upgrade to Windows 11 Pro. So frustrating.......when I try to enter that default key I get an error. Did you have any experience with this?
this seems to be a generic key for windows 10 not 11 , Currently having the same issue with a brand new windows 11 PC and upgrade to windows Pro
Microsoft message screen says select troubleshoot below. Which of course there is no Troubleshoot below !
In the end I had to get the vendor to log in and fix this problem, firstly by changing the version to Windows 11 Pro un-activated in Powershell/Terminal and then activate it with a fresh valid product key through System settings (several activation keys had been attempted through the System Settings previously to no avail)
So the best approach is to go to a Microsoft authorised vendor in the first instance)
I buy my license on the Microsoft site. They said that the product key is on the mail sent when I bought the license buy it doesn't. and in the order history doesn't appears the product key. I'm asking for every possible way to get my product key, my actual windows is a home ed, but I need some features of my pro version.
I want to upgrade but without my key is impossible. I already have my ms account associated to my login and is an administrator account. the only way to upgrade it is using the key or buy a new license (is totally illogic buy a new license to get my old license...) and nobody answer from Microsoft. the only thing the have is a troubleshoot step by step that goes in circle. Is sooooo hard to them give me my already bought key?
Final summary, even though I've moved on to powershell for most windows console work anyway, but I decided to wrap this old cmd issue up, I had to get on a cmd console today, and the lack of this feature really struck me. This one finally works with spaces as well, where my previous answer would fail.
Oh, also it allows lazy quoting, which I found useful, even when spaces are in the folder path names, since it wraps all of the arguments as if it was one long string. Which means just an initial quote also works, or completely without quotes also works.
What do i do wrong? I try to run it in docker and accces it via the browser. If i manually add HA to Docker i cant acces as well. I cant find proper documentation on this case (or at least didnt found it, googled for houres now)
At the end it will present a container id which means it started
Then it can take up to 15mins before it is ready
In c:/homeassistant you will find the HA specific folders/file
use local-ip:8123 to enter
When I have fixed the security, which I hope to get help with - which user should I use and password - on my Web access that works, I use e-mail as user and an associated password, but surely these are not the ones I should use here for home network access?
Thank you for making the effort and posting the screenshot. There are the two areas you need to fix in order to enable local access to your My Cloud Home (MCH) and log in from your version of Windows. The MCH software is designed for users running the Home or Pro version of Windows which still allow guest authentication log on by default.
It would appear that you are using a version of Windows such as Windows Enterprise or Windows Education which do not allow the default behavior typical of the Windows Home version and that is because:
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