Windows 10: Upgrading windows 10 home to windows 10 pro

Hello, I recently bought a new laptop that comes with windows 10 home. I just have a couple of question about upgrading windows 10 home to windows 10 pro?


I have a windows 8 retail copy installed into a laptop that no longer works, can i use this key to upgrade my Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro?


I understand that i need to use a generic key to upgrade my windows 10 home to windows 10 pro before i can use the windows 8 key. If any reason my windows 8 key doesn't work can i use my windows 10 home key to downgrade or do i need to do i clean install.

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product key and Windows 10 upgrade

No, but you could upgrade to Windows 10 home, then buy the Pro add-on so you can upgrade. Normally Windows 10 Pro costs $199, but if you already have Windows 10 Home edition, you can upgrade to Pro edition for only $99 instead (which is the same cost
as upgrading Windows 7 home to 7 pro). See "How to upgrade Windows 10 Home to Pro".

 

How to upgrade from Windows 7 Home to Windows 10 Pro?

Really? It is free to upgrade Windows 7 Home to Windows 10 Home, then $90 to upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro. But $199 to upgrade Windows 7 Home to Windows 10 Pro? Am I reading that right?

 

You won't be able to downgrade. It is possible the when you attempt to activate Windows 10 Pro with the Windows 8 Pro key you will get an error stating that the Windows 8 product key is in use on another computer. Then you are going to have to temporarily install Windows 8 on an empty partition and activate it on the new laptop, probably via toll free phone number, then it will activate Windows 10 and you can delete the Windows 8 temporary partition.

 

thank you for the help NavyLCDR

 

i did what you told and i installed windows 8 and activated it by phone. i have have some questions

Now that its activated can i upgrade my windows 10 home to pro?

i would need to use a generic key to upgrade it and than change product key is that correct?

would Microsoft ever deactivate my windows seeing that they never asked me if it a retail key and why i'm installing on a new laptop.

 

Yes.

Yes.

Probably not.