Windows 10: Is it possible to choose Home over Pro?

I was wondering, since Home version is superior in every way, is possible to choose?
I have Win 8.1 Pro, so I automatically installed Pro, but I wonder, if Home would work?

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Is it possible to choose where EACH download is saved?

Instead of left-clicking to initiate the download, right-click and select Save target as...

 

Is it possible to choose where EACH download is saved?

Ah yes! So simple. Thank you.

 

Are you joking? Pro is a complete superset of Home. Everything that Home has, so does Pro. Pro also has the extra features like BitLocker, Remote Desktop, Joining Domains, Client Hyper-V, etc... How exactly is Home "superior in every way"?

 

All you are mentioning are vulnerabilities, just like without bitlocker, there is virtually no ransomware, since it mostly uses Windows built-in encryption, not to mention better performance, since less of realtime stuff.

 

I am afraid you are mistaken Tairiku. Just because Pro has extra features doesn't mean those features are active and running. They need to be setup and used before they take away any performance from your machine. In reality however. There is no performance difference between Home or the Pro version. This has been proven time and again since Windows Vista and its multiple version SKUs.

 

Appreciate your personal opinions, but still interested to know the answer to my question. *Nerd

EDIT: I plan to install 10 on another computer, I would just prefer to avoid 2 more reinstalls.

I would have to install 8.1, upgrade to 10 Home, if it fails, 8.1 again, then 8.1 to 10 Pro and Pro Clean.

 

I'm not 100%, but I believe the activation code is for the specific version you upgraded (Home or Pro). You could try and see what happens, but my sneaking suspicion you won't be able to activate it.

 

Thanks, I guess I will have to find out the hard way. *Sleepy

Contacting MS would not help, their support usually have no clue, what they are talking about, like when I was asking if I can activate an upgrade version after a clean setup. They said, that it is impossible. *Rolleyes

 

And the answer would be yes as long you're installing on the same system board that you upgraded from

 

I did not upgrade anything, I had no OS there, I just bought an upgrade version, because it was cheaper.

 

No offense, but you do understand the term upgrade ? There has to be something prior to upgrade, no ?

 

Officially yes, unofficially it works just fine, but it is not completely legal of course.

 

Then you have answer your own question, yes ? And the matter would be up to you as to how you would want to deal with it

 

Sounds like you are asking us for advice to do something illegal. How many DIFFERENT Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 7 licenses do you actually possess? I might be misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you bought the upgrade version of Windows 8.1 - did a clean install with it, without having a previous operating system (which is illegal). And now you want to use that same Windows 8.1 upgrade to clean install on a second computer and use that to upgrade the second computer to Windows 10 (which is illegal). Please forgive me if I misunderstand what you want to do.

In regards to your original question - you can only free upgrade to the same version you are coming from. Home to Home and Pro to Pro. Any other combination and Windows 10 won't activate.