Windows 10: Windows 10 Pro reverted to Windows 10 Home

Hello,


I'm a information security student who has to use Windows 10 Professional because of the additional features it has over Home, such as Virtualization support and Group Policy. I bought the laptop I currently have (Dell Inspirion 15 5500) last year with Windows 10 Professional installed natively. I'm not sure when, but recently my laptop seems to have reverted to Home.


I used to be able to run VMware Workstation to operate a security and forensics lab for study and assignments, but now the program refuses to run. My first clue that something wrong happened was that I got a Device / Credential Guard error every time I ran VMware Workstation 14 in the past few days, yet that isn't even a feature in Home. Now, when I try to run the program after a repair install, it tells me that VMware Workstation cannot run on this edition of Windows, which is clearly wrong because I had the same program operate for about nine months without error.


If there is a way to investigate this and restore my Professional license, I would greatly appreciate the help! Thanks!

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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 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 10 upgrade problem, no input accepted

i've seen this when the stock USB drivers went kaput. Only ever seen it once - i used a PCI USB 2.0 card and connected the mouse and keyboard to that, and manually updated the USB 2/USB 3 drivers.