Windows 10: Migrate from Windows 10 pro Enterprise

A client has a laptop that was issued by her employer - the company no longer exists.Its running windows 10 pro enterprise and she does not have admin level access.Should she buy and install Windows 10 Pro to get admin access, and can this be done without losing installed programs and data?Or is there another way to gain admin access?

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Migrating from Windows 7 Enterprise to Windows 10 Pro

You are not going to be able to preserve programs and files if you want to perform a clean install.

Windows 7 Enterprise is technically a higher edition. Windows 10 Enterprise would be its equivalent.

If you want to migrate to Windows 10 Pro, that would involve downgrading, which would call for a custom install.

You could perform a backup in advance, but prepare to reinstall applications and hardware drivers.

Review:

How to manually backup and restore your files

and

How to: Perform a custom installation of Windows

There are some exotic options you could try if you do really want to preserve the programs and files.

• 
  Open Registry Editor(WIN + R, type regedit, hit Enter)
  
• 
  Browse to key HKEY_Local Machine > Software > Microsoft > Windows NT > CurrentVersion
  
• 
  Change EditionID
  to Pro (double click EditionID, change value, click OK). In your case it should at the moment show
  Enterprise
  
• 
  Change ProductName
  to Windows 10
  Pro. In your case it should at the moment show
  Windows 10 Enterprise
  
• 
  Browse to key HKEY_Local Machine > Software > Wow6432Node > Microsoft > Windows NT > CurrentVersion, change the same two values
  as in steps 3 and 4 above
  
• 
  Close the Registry Editor
  
• 
  Insert the Windows 10
  Proinstallation media, do an in-place upgrade by launching the setup from desktop
  (not booting with Windows 10 Pro install media)
  
• 
  When asked, enter your validWindows 10 Pro product key and
  select what to keep(settings, personal files and apps, only personal files or nothing)
  
• 
  Windows 10 Pro in-place upgrade will be done now.
  

 

Downgrade Windows 10 enterprise to Pro

Hello Mohamed,

Luckily, you can quickly downgrade from Windows 10 Enterprise to Windows 10 Pro by just changing the product key to the one for Pro.

If you like, the tutorial below can show you step by step the procedure on how to do this.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/51564-downgrade-windows-10-enterprise-windows-10-pro.html