Windows 10: withdrawing a win10 pro licence from a retiring laptop.

I have to retired my current laptop because Im leaving my current job. so there are three problems Im suffering.


1. the laptop was come with a Win 10 home, and I brought a pro licence on the windows shop. how can I withdraw the pro licence and restore the laptop back to its original edition?

2. while restoring the laptop back to its original home edition, is that means I have to remove all those working files from the laptop?

3. how can I applied the Win 10 pro licence to my new surface book 2 ?


thank you very muck.


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Changing to a replacement laptop and my digital licence

Hi ,

Okay, after a lot of hardware difficulties with my former laptop, it has been retired.

My replacement laptop has better specs and should be able to run the same system,

this being Win10 pro.

I have no access to the old laptop now, only the 'new' machine.

I did go into my account and associated the new machine and cleared the old one.

My question is does this automatically mean i can make a full install with my usb win10

and link my digital licence, or are there other steps i need to do first?

Although I've looked for this answer, all i got was more doubt as i read more about it.

If i mess up this install i will be totally without any working computer, so i want to be sure.

Thanks for your help.

 

Win10 licence transfer

I have a retail licence for win10 Pro on an old machine (that is obsolete and no longer used) and I would like a clear step by step guide as to how I can transfer this to a new machine that is currently running win10 home. I've tried upgrading with a win8.1
retail key but that did not work. Contacting the local Microsoft helpline did not help either as apparently "this is no longer possible" despite the fact it is in the EULA.

Anyone know how to do this?

 

Successful transfer of Win10 Pro digital licence

Hi I would put it this way from what I have learned:
If you have a windows 7 (or presumably, 8 or 8.1) RETAIL channel licence (i.e. you had the discs and were previously able to install on new machines as you needed - uninstalling any others so that there was only one copy in use) then yes.

I had upgraded my old Win7 pro licence to Win10 Pro using the free upgrade offer from MS last year.

Now I want to use win10 pro on the new machine (which comes with Win10 Home) but I only have a digital win10 pro licence on the old machine (plus my old Win7 Pro licence).

The digital licence to win10 pro can apparently be 'transferred' to the new machine. I haven't done this yet but I am told this is effected by using a MSA (Microsoft account) and being logged into that account on both machines.

You then use the activation troubleshooter to select the licence on the old machine or alternatively performing a plain upgrade on the new machine and either entering the original win7 pro key or calling MS to activate over the telephone.

We'll see if it works. I'll post back.