Upgrading Windows 11 Home to Pro

Frank

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Jan 26, 2024, 7:44:27 PM1/26/24

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I've a new laptop that I need to upgrade from Windows 11 Home to 11 Pro.
Is the process fairly simple? Can it be done without a reinstallation?

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Andy Burns

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Jan 27, 2024, 3:49:45 AM1/27/24

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Frank wrote:

> I've a new laptop that I need to upgrade from Windows 11 Home to 11 Pro.
> Is the process fairly simple? Can it be done without a reinstallation?

Buy a home->pro key, e.g.

<https://pckeys.uk/windows-10-home-to-professional-upgrade>

Settings / System / Activation / Upgrade your Edition / Change Product Key

no reinstallation required.

Jeff Gaines

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Jan 27, 2024, 5:07:43 AM1/27/24

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<V8KdnSgTS_J5zCn4...@brightview.co.uk> Frank wrote:

>I've a new laptop that I need to upgrade from Windows 11 Home to 11 Pro.
>Is the process fairly simple? Can it be done without a reinstallation?

Do you need to join a domain or is it something else?

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Frank

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Jan 27, 2024, 4:07:54 PM1/27/24

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27/01/2024 10:07, Jeff Gaines wrote:
> On 27/01/2024 in message
> <V8KdnSgTS_J5zCn4...@brightview.co.uk> Frank wrote:
>
>>I've a new laptop that I need to upgrade from Windows 11 Home to 11 Pro.
>>Is the process fairly simple? Can it be done without a reinstallation?
>
> Do you need to join a domain or is it something else?
>

I need remote desktop connection

Frank

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Jan 27, 2024, 4:11:25 PM1/27/24

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As simple as that? Just enter a Pro key? Presumably, it will download
the extra/different files it needs?

I'm more than surprised it's so simple. Thanks!

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Jeff Gaines

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Jan 28, 2024, 3:15:57 AM1/28/24

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On 27/01/2024 in message

<C42cnaosDeYD7Sj4...@brightview.co.uk> Frank wrote:

>>>I've a new laptop that I need to upgrade from Windows 11 Home to 11 Pro.
>>>Is the process fairly simple? Can it be done without a reinstallation?
>>
>>Do you need to join a domain or is it something else?
>>
>I need remote desktop connection

OK, I use it all the time. Windows Home includes the client, Windows Pro
has the server. You only nee Pro on the PC you are remoting TO

In my case I remote from my laptops to my desktops so the desktops have Pro and the Laptops Home. Are you remoting in to the laptop or from it to something else?

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David

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Jan 28, 2024, 8:27:13 AM1/28/24

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Back in the good old days of Windows NT all the files were there.
The software just checked the licence to see which software should be made
available.

IIRC at the time it was client or server.

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Theo

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Jan 28, 2024, 9:52:54 AM1/28/24

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David <wib...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Back in the good old days of Windows NT all the files were there.
> The software just checked the licence to see which software should be made
> available.
>
> IIRC at the time it was client or server.

I think it's something not too dissimilar. You go to 'add Windows features'
to enable various things, which will download any necessary bits. Which
features are available in that list depends on the licence you have. In
other words, nothing magically happens when you change licence aside from
various features being installable which weren't before. BICBW.

Theo

Philip Herlihy

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Jan 28, 2024, 2:05:03 PM1/28/24

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In article <xn0ohcws9...@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines wrote...

>
> On 27/01/2024 in message
> <C42cnaosDeYD7Sj4...@brightview.co.uk> Frank wrote:
>
> >>>I've a new laptop that I need to upgrade from Windows 11 Home to 11 Pro.
> >>>Is the process fairly simple? Can it be done without a reinstallation?
> >>
> >>Do you need to join a domain or is it something else?
> >>
> >I need remote desktop connection
>
> OK, I use it all the time. Windows Home includes the client, Windows Pro
> has the server. You only nee Pro on the PC you are remoting TO
>
> In my case I remote from my laptops to my desktops so the desktops have Pro and the Laptops Home. Are you remoting in to the laptop or from it to something else?

Remote Desktop is certainly nice to use, but there is a free alternative which
works on any version of Windows.

https://uvnc.com/downloads/ultravnc.html

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Jeff Gaines

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Jan 28, 2024, 3:30:48 PM1/28/24

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<MPG.4020b5b62...@news.eternal-september.org> Philip Herlihy
wrote:

I did try it once in my adventurous days :-)

I found it didn't scale the screen very well, perhaps I should have
another play...

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