Windows 10: Windows 10 Home and Education (Swapping on a PC)

Hello,


I currently have Windows 10 Home on my desktop PC I use for school. My college now offers the free Education version of Windows 10, and I was wanting to switch to that. However, I do not want to lose my Home version of Windows because I know I can use that key to help my family build their own home desktop. How would I go about swapping to the Windows 10 Education key, and keeping the Windows 10 Home key for another PC build?


Thank you,


ALDJ

:)

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10S to Windows 10 Education

Just to be safe, I would first recommend you upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, then perform the Easy Upgrade to Windows 10 Education.

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/upgrade-windows-10-s-windows-10-pro-roll-back/

Step 2:

Perform the Easy Upgrade to Windows 10 Education:

• How
  to Perform an Easy Upgrade in Windows 10

 

Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

I'm going to be building a new PC on Christmas and want to install Windows 10 on it. I have Windows 10 on my current PC, which I installed upgrading from 8.1 with the files on a USB. How do I go about installing a clean copy of Windows 10 on this new PC? I think I recall something about installing it once makes Microsoft recognize your hardware, but since this will be a PC I'm not sure what steps I need to take. Do I need to go 8.1 -> 10 or is there a method of going directly to 10?