Windows 10: Bought a used laptop which is pre-installed with Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Education.

Hi,

I bought a used laptop which is pre-installed with Windows 10 Pro Education. I don't know about the first user of my laptop. After some years, I faced some issues after updating Windows 10. Then, I contacted Microsoft and they told that to connect with my Work or School account. Then I confused and installed a fresh Windows 10 Pro Education using the BIOS OEM key. The OS was activated successfully. But now Microsoft support says that if I update Windows, I need to face many errors, nd if I don't update windows, some functions may not work properly. I am not interested to buy a new liscence key. What should I do know?.

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Windows 10 Education Pro

I've not had an opportunity to test Pro Education edition yet but I am running normal Education on a Hyper-V virtual machine and on dual boot with Pro on a laptop. Basically Education is exactly as Enterprise, meant for domain or Azure AD use. Main differences when compared to Pro are missing Cortana and no possibility to use Microsoft account as initial user account when setting up Windows, although when selecting initial user as local domain user a normal local account will be created which can then be switched to a Microsoft account instead of joining a domain.

Native Windows apps in Windows 10 Education edition are the same than in Pro edition, Cortana being the only exception.

If you already have setup Windows 10 Pro on your machines with a customised image I can see no benefits in doing the job again deploying an almost similar OS. This is of course only my personal subjective opinion based on what I know at the moment; I have no knowledge or insight about what additional features (see highlighted part in quote below) Pro Education might be and if they would be reason enough to upgrade to Pro Education.

Quote from https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...tion-customers:

 

How can I convert Windows 10 Pro Education to Pro OEM?

Hi,

To assist you better, kindly provide us more details by answering the following questions:

• Is Windows 10 Pro Education Pre-installed on your computer?
  
• Have you upgraded your computer from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Pro Education? If so, do you still have the product key for Windows 10 Pro?

Meanwhile, you may refer to the steps under Roll back Windows 10 Pro Education to Windows 10 Pro section of this
article.

Should you need further assistance, feel free to get back to us.

 

Re installation of windows 10 pro Education

hi,

I have pre installed windows 10 pro education device under HEC Pakistan laptop scheme. due to some reason I have to uninstall my windows 10 pro education now I want to re install it but couldn't find any way to re install it. any help in this regard will
be highly appreciated.

regards,