Windows 10: Upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Pro without using MS Store credentials

Hello,


When I receive PC's that have Windows Home on them and I want to upgrade to PRO I have a problem.


I have a Microsoft Store account that I don't was to use when upgrading my corporate computers.


The computers are for Users not Admin so I don't want any of my credentials associated with their machines.


When I go to the Microsoft Store through Settings I get prompted to use my STORE credentials for the purchase BUT it also wants to associate my account to Microsoft Apps OR It will remember my account for easy sign in to apps or websites.


Neither of these are what I want. All I would like to do is upgrade the computer to PRO and not have my credentials on this PC at all.


How are other Admins handling this?


Thanks,

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Windows 10 Stored Passwords (Credential Mgr) Deleted

Hi,



I realize the inconvenience you are experiencing with Windows 10. I will certainly help you.



This issue might occur if there is browser settings.

To assist you better, please provided us the information below:

• Which browser are you using on the computer?
• Are you using Internet Explorer on the computer?
• Have you created any system restore points on the computer prior to the issue?

I suggest you to follow the steps below to check if web credentials is store in the Web credential window.

1. Click on Search bar.

2. Type "Manager Web Credentials." without the quotes in the search bar and click on it.

3. Then check if you fin the web credentials are present in it or not.



Please get back to us with an update on issue with finding the web credential on Windows 10, we will be happy to help.



Thank you.

 

Windows 10 upgrade problem, no input accepted

I really hate having to come here and ask for help, but I really am stumped. It hurts my geek pride. I have a PC with fairly modern hardware in it. It has a p8p67 pro in it. I have tried upgrading windows 10 on it twice now. Both times I have had the same result.

After windows finishes upgrading it goes to the log in/set up screen. I can't do anything. No keyboard or mouse input is accepted.

I will list some, or hopefully all, of the troubleshooting steps I have tried:

• Move keyboard and mouse to different USB ports.
• Try different keyboard or mouse.
• Restart computer, repeatedly.
• Google for related issues.
• Update Bios, because why not.
• Create boot media and revert to windows 7.

The windows 10 system restore boot media works fine with keyboard and mouse. All USB ports work in windows 7. I don't know what is wrong. I suspect that windows 10 is lacking a driver of some sort, but since the computer accepts no input I have no way of checking for which driver let alone installing it.

Please help me figure this out. If I have to revert back to windows 7 again, I am not going to get it upgraded to windows 10. Thank you in advanced.

 

Windows 10 upgrade rant..

The free space shouldn't prevent you from upgrading to built 1607. I manually upgraded my own laptop which had only 9gigs free space left on the system drive.

I unzipped the Windows 10 Pro anniversary edition ISO on my D drive, and started the upgrade process from there. At one point the installer complained about not having enough free space on the main drive, i just had to point it to the D drive to proceed to the next step. Now the rollback installation is stored there and doesn't clog up the C drive anymore.

In your case you could insert a large sdcard to act as the required rollback drive, i'm pretty sure it would do the trick.

Oh and by the way, if you want to further compress your System files:

• do a search Command Prompt, right-click it, and select Run as administrator.
• Type COMPACT.EXE /CompactOS:always and hit Enter.

You'll will gain anything from 2 to 4 gigs free space after it's done.