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. 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. 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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