Windows 10: Microsoft Store is offering me a free upgrade to 10/11 Pro from a "purchase" I never made....

I think I know what's happening... Anyone curious or wanna take a crack at it?Hint: The MSA account used to login is mine, as is the Store account profile?Something isn't matching up though...Extra credit: 1. is it possible this is an old license from another device i used to have? 2 . How does one even determine that!?

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Cannot activate Win10 Pro after Microsoft Store app purchase

Hello guys,

My laptop came pre-installed with Win10 Home 64bit and I recently purchased a Win 10/11 Pro licence from the Microsoft Store app. Unfortunately, having some issues activating the digital licence for Win10 Pro.

Here is the situation:

• Logged into Microsoft account used for the purchase (also received the email receipt of the purchase)
• Already connected to stable internet

What I tried so far:

Entering the Win10 Pro generic key:



Received error 0x800700005:





Clicking Close returned another error 0xC004F034:





Clicking Troubleshoot re-activated my Win10 Home so still not on Pro.

Thanks for any help.


[FIXED]

Win 10 Pro suddenly became Win 10 Ent from MS Store app:
Jump to solution - Cannot activate Win10 Pro after Microsoft Store app purchase

Sources:

• Windows 10 Home to Pro Update became Enterprise and won't activate - Microsoft Q&A
• Bought Win 10 Pro, but laptop now says Win 10 Enterprise. - Microsoft Community

 

Cannot activate Win10 Pro after Microsoft Store app purchase

You sir, are a star. Thank you so much!

As a final attempt, I followed the last article you sent where downgrading Enterprise to Pro simply meant re-entering the Generic Pro Key again. And it worked! +reps for you <3

In summary, here was the rundown of events in case someone else can find this useful:

1. Buy Win Pro 10/11 digital licence from Microsoft Store app (no product key, licence bound to MS account)
2. 'Buy' button becomes 'Install' in MS Store, click Install (this will result to an error code, do not panic)
3. Reboot device (let Windows updates finish during reboot)
4. Windows magically reboots to a de-activated Win 10 Enterprise (do not panic)
5. Change product key into generic Win 10 Pro key: VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T (this effectively downgrades the 'stray' Enterprise to Pro)

Voila!

Thread marked solved. Cheers!

 

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