Windows 10: Can I upgrade to Windows 10 Home with a Windows 7 Professional key?

I'm sure it has been asked on the Internet before, I just couldn't find the solution via Google.

See #1 here: 4 beginner questions: Home-Pro, Recovery Drive, 32 GB eMMC, drivers - Windows 10 Forums

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When I get Win10 Home , can I upgrade it to Pro ?

The choice is yours.

1)Leave it with windows 7 home premium and get a Free upgrade to windows 10 Home

OR

2) Leave it with windows 7 home premium and get a Free upgrade to windows 10 Home, then buy windows 10 Pro Pack ($99) to upgrade to windows 10 Professional

OR

3) Upgrade to windows 7 Professional and take advantage of the Free upgrade to Windows 10 Professional.

 

Upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Professional by using Windows 7 Professional

Hi All,

I have bought a new notebook with Windows 10 Home, but I have Windows 7 Professional, as there is free upgrade of Windows 7 to Windows 10, can I use my Windows 7 Professional key to upgrade my new notebook to Windows 10 Professional, and how to do it. Thanks.

Wayne

 

Your thread's title says...............Can I upgrade to Windows 10 Home with a Windows 7 Professional key?

If I ask a question which had already been asked in the other thread of yours, I apologize.

What exactly do you mean by " ..... with a Windows 7 Professional key "?
Is the computer in question running Win 7 Pro or other edition ?

You are asking about upgrade install.
The upgrade path is ........ Like to Like......... Home to Home, Pro to Pro.

You cannot do an upgrade install of Windows 10 Home with a Win 7 Pro product key.

 

@davidhk

Huh, your answer seems to be a bit complicated, to the simple question I was aiming to ask.

Here I try to clarify: upgrade install or clean install; it's a tie for me. The point is, I have, had Windows 7 Professional and want Windows 10 Home, just because it consumes less resources (as I was advised in the other thread).

 

You cannot do an upgrade install of Windows 10 Home with a Windows 7 pro key.

 

In your specs, you have Windows 7.

If it is Windows 7 Home, then you will get a free upgrade to Win 10 Home.
If it is Windows 7 Pro, then you will get a free upgrade to Win 10 Pro.
That's what I meant by ....... Like to Like.

In an upgrade install, you have to adhere to the version your computer is presently running.

 

Oh, Microsoft, why can't you a bit more flexible?
@davidhk Thanks!

 

You are welcome.

 

What do you mean by less resources? The main difference between home and pro is really the domain related stuff and bit locker. Neither of which makes your system slower. You dont even need to use those features. Just upgrade to pro.

 

Not me. @NavyLCDR (Pro User) suggested this. Link in the 1st post.

 

4 beginner questions: Home-Pro, Recovery Drive, 32 GB eMMC, drivers - Windows 10 Forums

 

Easiest fix just use the compress command after installing it. There is a section in the guides on this where you can compress the OS and certain directories. I would say do this rather than worrying about the tiny amount of space you get with home vs pro. I almost want to say when the images were kept separate before 1511 that the ISO for Home was bigger than the ISO for pro.

 

I'm not sure if there is a definitive benchmark regarding the resource usage regarding Win10 Home vs Pro - but in Win 7 days Ultimate used approximately the same resources as Home Basic (obviously whilst stuff like WMC was not running.)

 

What I suggest doing is if you can get to another computer that supports virtualization, create your entire OS install with all the apps and drivers you want or need in the VM, dont enter any product key info for any app or OS. Create a provision package from said VM. Import the package into WICD as Win 10 Pro. Customize as you need to. Create install media with the compact OS option. This will compress the OS and apps during the install which will run from a smaller file instead of a bunch of uncompressed files. This option will replace files in the image as you add in updates or drivers while still maintaining the size. I know it seems like a lot of work but its a good way to shrink down Windows as far as it can go. I have done this on my SSD at home.