Windows 10: Is it Pro or not?

I’ve got a laptop that came with Windows 8 (non-pro). Back then I bought a Windows 8 pro key and used it to upgrade the laptop to pro.

Flash forward to now. I was in the Windows 10 Insider fast ring running the Pro version on this same laptop. I just got tired of being an Iinsider, so I did a clean install of v1607 on the laptop. During the install I was not asked for a product key. Post install I found that it had installed Windows 10 home. Apparently it looked in the BIOS and saw my old non-pro product key and just assumed that was the right thing to do. Ok, fine.
So, I used Change Product Key in the System control panel to enter my old pro product key. Once I did that, Windows 10 immediately informed me it was upgrading my system to pro and went through a 5-10 minute install, after which the system now reported it was the pro version. All well and good, right?

Except that I’ve discovered certain pro features are missing (e.g. the Users and Groups snapin in mmc). When I try to install it, mmc tells me I can’t because it is not supported under my edition of WIndows. What the what? The system control panel reports I am running pro, but mmc thinks I am not.

Ideas on how to fix this?
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bc

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Is it TIGO or is it NOKIA?

I have a dreadful story with Nokia and Tigo in Colombia. I purchased a phone 5 months ago with a new service contract from Tigo and I have regreted that day for the past 4 months and 30 days!!!!!!!!!!



First my phone would not surf the web a 3G speeds, it would only work on the EDGE network. I took it in to a service center and I was told that I have to change the network configuration from Both to UMTS so the phone would operate at 3G speeds, however
this is a pain since the service providers 3G coverage is very limited and I have to change back and forth from UMTS to GSM depending on where I am, if I forget, the phone will not have a signal and all my calls go to voicemail.



I later took the phone in because it was getting very hot, would drain the battery in a couple of hours and would restart all on its own from 5 to 15 times a day, even while on a call. The phone was returned to me with just a firmware update and that was
all. Obviously the phone was not repaired and still had the same issues. I took it in for service again, two weeks later I was given a "new" phone. Funny as it may sound this "new" phone was completely screwed up, the keys printed on the keyboard had nothing
to do with the characters displayed on the screen. Once again I wonder how this "new" phone passed all inspections before it has handed to me.



I tried to contact NOKIA directly but unfortunately they do not have a phone number here in Colombia, their customer service number gets diverted to Mexico and they cannot help me. When I finally was able to speak to a human I was told that Nokia did not
handle customer complaints or warranty issues directly that I should only communicate with the service provider that sold the phone to me. So after receiving this information I was only allowed to deal with TIGO.



While my phone has been serviced the service provider (TIGO) has been charging me the full price even though they know I cant access the service because they claim "even though we have your phone, service has not been interrupted therefore you are responsible
for you full monthly plan amount". How is it that they claim they have not interrupted service even though they have the phone I use to get access to this service? Anyway I LOVE it if someone at NOKIA cared about a customer and gave TIGO a call to solve this
problem.



How many times must a phone be returned to service before a solution is given to the customer?



What do you all think? Is it TIGO or is it NOKIA?

 

This is how it works ... 10 Home or Pro

Well it has changed since I used the Media Creation Tool for Free Upgrade then because I was never asked for a product Key. But then again I have never used the Disk only made them for back-up in case needed to do clean install some day. I downloaded
from there once on one computer and rest of my free upgrades have been made through updates. I made 32 and 64 both so that I would have clean install disk for either type machine. I realize that if one is asked when using DVD for a product key one can skip
that step and if later has problems activating can use product key. Perhaps my recall is wrong and perhaps creation tool has changed I will make some more disks eventually and see.

 

Hello bc, *Smile

You can use an option in the tutorial below to verify which edition of Windows 10 you have installed.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...installed.html

lusrmgr.msc should open Local Users and Groups for you if available.

 

Probably best to clean install and put the generic Pro key in pid.txt Code: [PID] Value=VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T[/quote] and save that file in the Sources folder on your installation USB.

That should skip the check of the 8 key in BIOS/UEFI, install Pro and will activate automatically if 10 was activated before.

Windows Setup Edition Configuration and Product ID Files (EI.cfg and PID.txt)

 

That's the thing. The product key I gave it was definitely a pro key. Further, it went through the Home to Pro upgrade. Post upgrade, system control panel identifies the OS as Windows 10 Pro, but lusrmgr.msc says "This snapin may not be used with this edition of Windows 10.'" The upgrade process seems to have failed to add all the pro features. Things like HyperV and Remote Desktop are there, but not the users and groups snapin. That's what I am looking to try to fix (and since a clean install never prompts me for a product key but rather assumes its home based on the original product key baked into the BIOS, another clean install won't even help).
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bc

 

and save that file in the Sources folder on your installation USB.

That should skip the check of the 8 key in BIOS/UEFI, install Pro and will activate automatically if 10 was activated before.

Windows Setup Edition Configuration and Product ID Files (EI.cfg and PID.txt)[/quote] Aha, thanks for that. I was not aware of that capability. But why a generic key? Why not my actual pro key?
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bc

 

Either would work. Generic key just means your install USB isn't tied to the one PC. In either case it should pick up your digital entitlement to activate.

 

Thanks for the clarification.
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bc

 

For those of use that did the free upgrade to 10 Pro, we all have the generic key. Thus that's the key we use in our PID.txt. Without it my laptop will install 10 Home, like in your situation. Check your key, if it ends in -3V66T, you also have been using the generic key. *Wink That key is the one given out with the Digital Entitlement you get via the free upgrade.