Windows 10: How to Actually change Windows 11 edition on Modern Machines 2025 Edition, Home to Pro.

You bought a legit Windows 11 Pro key, but every time you try to install it on your Dell, HP, Lenovo, or whatever overpriced slab of silicon you own, Windows or OEM:Forces a Home edition installIgnores your product keyIgnores your ei.cfgSometimes even ignores PID.txtLocks your drive with BitLockerTraps you in OEM hell like it’s the Truman Show.BIOS holds a pre-installed Home key hostage in firmwareIt’s not you. It’s them, embedding Home edition keys into the firmware BIOS and Windows Setup just obeys, no questions asked.The “F.....y... Micro...D...l, ..P, Le...” Install Method™ If you

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Changing from oem windows 10 pro edition to windows 10 education pro Edition

Because your computer wasn't purchased with a k-12 academic licenses through OEM partners, it cannot be turned into a Pro Education edition at no cost. Just like you said, you can manually change it, to strip down certain features to make it like the Pro Education edition (Not Education edition, but Pro Education, they are two different things). This is the way to do it without cost.

The link I shared with you list all of the things you can disable current Pro edition:

Windows Spotlight on the lock screen.

Start menu app suggestions.

Additional apps on Start.

Windows tips.

Microsoft account notifications.

By disabling the features above, will that meet the needs? If not, then you will need to contact an academic partner to get an education license.

Or do you need detail instruction how to disable all of those features in group policy?

 

Windows 10 pro edition

Hello Raed,

For us to better assist you with your concern about upgrading to Windows 10 pro edition and how to roll back to Windows 7, we would like to know some additional information first:

• Did you get any error messages or error codes?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

To help you on upgrading your Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro, we suggest that you check this

article for information and troubleshooting steps.

You can follow the steps provided below to be able to downgrade to Windows 7:

• Open Settings.
• Select Update & security.
• Click Recovery tab.
• Look for the option to "Go back to Windows 7/8", and click on "Get Started" to begin the process.

Hope it helps. Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

Windows 10 Home and Pro End of Support on October 14, 2025

Windows 10 Home and Pro follows the Modern Lifecycle Policy.

This applies to the following editions: Home, Pro, Pro Education, Pro for Workstations

Microsoft will continue to support at least one Windows 10 Semi-Annual Channel until October 14, 2025.

Support Dates

[table][tr][td]Listing[/td] [td]Start Date[/td] [td]Retirement Date[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Windows 10 Home and Pro[/td] [td]07/29/2015[/td] [td]10/14/2025[/td] [/tr] [/table]


Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lif...0-home-and-pro