Windows 10 Home Edition Iso
Kanisha Dezarn
I have set up GCPW on a windows 11 home edition device. Log in and everything works as expected. However no policies seem to be applied to the user. I've checked the enrollment token is there. Device management is enabled. The documentation status stats windows 10 Pro is supported. Does this mean windows 11 home edition wouldn't be supported because it's not Pro?
Below are the system requirements for GCPW from the documentation which states you need Windows Pro editions at a minimum or using one of the other editions stated. You can install GCPW on Windows Home editions but the policies and provisions won't be applied properly amongst other issues that may show up.
3) Windows 10 Home does not permit you to even postpone, let alone cancel, the automatic download and installation of critical Windows updates although you can postpone the mandatory restarts for them. Windows 10 Pro permits you to postpone the automatic update downloads and installs until you've finished whatever critical task you have to perform. Neither version of Windows 10 permits you to completely cancel the updates and update installs.
Yes, remembering that Windows 7 Home had much more stringent physical RAM restrictions than Pro was what made me ask the question. I had already seen the current comparisons of RAM access capabilities, and it certainly won't affect me to go with Home and my paltry 16GB with a single(sniff) processor.
The standard version of Windows 10 is actually Windows 10 Home edition, and it's aimed at home users. Windows 10 Pro is just like like an extension to Home in terms of size, features and price. Both can work across desktops , laptops, and tablets, and both of them come with Cortana- the virtual assistant, Edge Browser, Touch Compatibilty with options to switch to tablet layout (Continuum), Virtual Desktop and support for Windows Store apps. Here are the features that are only available in the Pro version: Domain Join, Group Policy Management, Bitlocker, Enterprise Mode Internet Explorer (EMIE), Assigned Access 8.1, Remote Desktop, Client Hyper-V, and Direct Access.
And Windows 10 Pro does not have a 512 GB RAM limit. It's actually 2 TB (although hardly any current desktops or workstations can actually accommodate that much system RAM due to the availability of compatible DIMMs).
Vray website only shows Windows 10 Pro as a compatible operating system but it seems odd to me. If anyone could confirm me that these software would also run smoothly on windows 10 home 64bit that'd be great
Just be aware natively you cannot access gpedit.msc (Group Policy for disabling automatic driver/windows updates). However I found a workaround that installs it regardless and it works great now. I was a bit dubious at first as its a batch file - but after reading through it, its safe.
Just be aware switching from Windows 7 to Windows 10 you will have a few permission hurdles to get through at first (or maybe this has been resolved in service packs). Any troubles come ask we should have some fixes for it.
This will allow you to write to the 3ds max directory as your user. (max tends to want to place items in here sometimes when writing config data, not having permissions will cause some problems time to time). Also helps if you customise your scripts in this directory.
Dean : I can't say I would trust buying a windows license from ebay to be honest. Buying a pro license from a reseller (even the oem version) is twice as much as the home one. In France at least. Hence why I'd like to not waste money on a software I actually won't really need (all the security stuff the pro version brings are a bit useless for what I do).
I am looking to buy a laptop for lighter work, most come with W10 home and i was wondering if eventually i would NEED to upgrade to Pro for 3D and Autocad work, will the Pro OS make a noticeable difference for this work? will it work better with the hardware?
Safe side go for Pro for better compatibility although these software could run on Home version as well, but go for Pro as many software OEM ask for Pro for their software to run properly. My Ant PC Workstation for 3D Animation runs 3DS Max on Windows 10 Pro flawlessly I have heard there are some modules compatibility issues with home.
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 :
I have a pc that needs to have windows 10 home removed, so that it can be re-imaged with a company version of windows 10 pro. The problem we are have is, after wiping the drives (2 of them) Windows 10 home edition still pops up after running the Pro Cd. We have eliminated the partitions on the drives, wiped the drives, reset the bios, removed TPM in the bios and have run out of ideas on how to install the company image on this pc. I know I can go to the app store and upgrade, however, we have software and group policy ect. that needs to be on this pc before it gets on our network.
Or, remove the disk-drive, attach it as a "slave" disk-drive on some other computer, and use "Disk Management" to delete all the partitions, create one partition that spans the drive, and "format" the drive, and return it into the computer?
I have removed the disk, wiped it on another machine, and it still put the windows 10 home version on it, I also took a drive from our stock (new never used) and put it on the machine, formatted it and it came up with Windows 10 home. We also tried to image from a flash drive instead of the cd/dvd.
At this point I think there is something cached somewhere in the bios, but not sure where. So I will return to trying different bios settings. If anyone has any suggestions on the uefi bios I am willing to try.
Take the disk-drive, and the Pro CD to a different computer, and use that computer to install Windows, up to the first point where the installer needs to reboot to "continue" the installation (by using the files newly-loaded onto the disk-drive).
The strange thing is, throughout all of the various times I have installed I have never been asked to install the product key. This is after wiping the drive , installing a new drive etc., which leads me to believe that there is some sort of recovery cached on the pc somewhere.
I found the answer...You have to install from a flash drive, basically creat an ISO put it on the flash with a PID.txt file. The install will ignore the embedded license and use the one in the pid file.
and I tried to install this program to supposedly 'unlock' bitlocker on my Windows Home edition so I could encrypt my hard drive/operating system . I installed it, and it ran a DOS program for a split second, but it did not do anything after that, and neither did it even allo me to encrypt my drive.
@ajaaron: the test program outputs that BitLocker is disabled and so VeraCrypt should have displayed the same since they are both using the same code, but for some reason the behavior between the two is different. Something is definitely strange.
Concerning the program you installed, it looks suspicious to me especially after inspecting their website. In your place, I would be concerned about what this program did to the PC after installing it.
@enigma2illusion: the "EncryptionInProgress" is what is returned by the Windows API but it doesn't necessarily means that there is an encryption and that's why I ignore it. Somehow, Windows sets this value to 2 (or 4 in the case of OP) instead of 0.
Okey dokey...thanks for all your help Mounir. I managed to go to encryption settings area in windows and it gave me the option to 'decrypt' the drive, which I did...it took around 30min or so. it appears that dodgy program did something to make windows think it was encrypted. (not sure whether it really was encrypted or not, but I certainly didn't create an enceyption password, nor did I need to enter a password at any time).