Windows 10: Help! Win 11 machine reverted to Win 10 - lost many installs, directories, updates, etc

Discus and support Help! Win 11 machine reverted to Win 10 - lost many installs, directories, updates, etc in Windows 10 Gaming to solve the problem; Last week, I embarked on upgrading my Windows 10 machine to Windows 11. To do that, I upgraded my Gigabyte Aorus Bios from F3 to F62 successfully,... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Gaming' started by jitster, Feb 28, 2023.

  1. jitster Win User

    Help! Win 11 machine reverted to Win 10 - lost many installs, directories, updates, etc


    Last week, I embarked on upgrading my Windows 10 machine to Windows 11. To do that, I upgraded my Gigabyte Aorus Bios from F3 to F62 successfully, fixed TPS and Secure boot, and was able to upgrade successfully on Windows 11.Then I decided to install McAfee Total Protection - it wasn't installing on my machine so called McAfee support and they remoted in and also confirmed it didnt work. So they went into Windows command mode, created a new 'Administrator' Account, logged into it, and ran MCPR clean out any old McAfee, and then successfully installed McAfee. I logged back into my perso

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    jitster, Feb 28, 2023
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  4. mellaby Win User

    Help! Win 11 machine reverted to Win 10 - lost many installs, directories, updates, etc

    Win Pro reverted to Win home

    I've been happy do clean installs of Win 10 till yesterday. When the latest update came out Win 10 1511, I decided to do it with a clean install (using the media creation tool) on my Win 10 Pro laptop. The clean install when in without a hitch but when
    I checked it's Activation it said it was Win 10 Home. I can't find a way to get it to revert back to Pro. I've done about 5 clean installs using this method and it's never done this before. Any suggestions?
     
    mellaby, Mar 1, 2023
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