Windows 10: Windows deactivated itself and changed version from home/pro to education. How can I...

I changed my pc name and windows forced me to update on the 27th May. After restarting, the activate windows watermark appeared.


I found my product key by using wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey in powershell admin but when I key in the key, it doesn't work. It says try again later.



In addition, some of my settings are 'managed by an organisation' and I can find some of my school vpn settings which I am only supposed to see on my school laptop


Should I reinstall windows? Can the manufacturer help me?

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Windows 10 Education Pro

I've not had an opportunity to test Pro Education edition yet but I am running normal Education on a Hyper-V virtual machine and on dual boot with Pro on a laptop. Basically Education is exactly as Enterprise, meant for domain or Azure AD use. Main differences when compared to Pro are missing Cortana and no possibility to use Microsoft account as initial user account when setting up Windows, although when selecting initial user as local domain user a normal local account will be created which can then be switched to a Microsoft account instead of joining a domain.

Native Windows apps in Windows 10 Education edition are the same than in Pro edition, Cortana being the only exception.

If you already have setup Windows 10 Pro on your machines with a customised image I can see no benefits in doing the job again deploying an almost similar OS. This is of course only my personal subjective opinion based on what I know at the moment; I have no knowledge or insight about what additional features (see highlighted part in quote below) Pro Education might be and if they would be reason enough to upgrade to Pro Education.

Quote from https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...tion-customers:

 

Upgrade Windows 10 Pro Education to Windows 10 Pro

Dear Team,

some system having Windows 10 Education Version how to change it to windows 10 Pro through SCCM

in SCCM i can see only Windows 10 Enterprise version but not windows 10 Pro,

please suggest is there any other option to upgrade it

 

How can I convert Windows 10 Pro Education to Pro OEM?

Hi,

To assist you better, kindly provide us more details by answering the following questions:

• Is Windows 10 Pro Education Pre-installed on your computer?
  
• Have you upgraded your computer from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Pro Education? If so, do you still have the product key for Windows 10 Pro?

Meanwhile, you may refer to the steps under Roll back Windows 10 Pro Education to Windows 10 Pro section of this
article.

Should you need further assistance, feel free to get back to us.