Does my Windows 10 laptop lack SLIC 2.1 in bios?

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    mc510 MDL Novice

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    #1 mc510, Sep 2, 2020
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    I've just picked up a three year old HP laptop with Windows 10 Home. Was thinking to install Windows 7 Pro, then upgrade back to Windows 10 and see if I can acquire a Pro license that way. But when I run RW-Everything, there is no SLIC tab under ACPI. This means there's no SLIC, right? There's not some other place in BIOS where SLIC can hide?

    If I could activate Win7 Pro, would my idea to acquire a Win 10 Pro digital license even work, given that this computer originally shipped with Win 10 Home?
     
  2. joluboga

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    Just clean install Windows 10 Pro and activate it with "massgravel". It will give you exactly the same result, but in a lot less time.
     
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    #5 mc510, Sep 3, 2020
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    Sorry guys, one follow-up question. I changed to Pro with the product key then activated with massgravel and all looked good. Then I did a clean re-install and it went back to Home and now it won't accept the product key ... at "enter a product key" it says "the product key you entered didn't work." Can I fix this easily?

    [edit] okay, I should have done this first, but a little googling revealed that I should have added ei.cfg to my installation usb. I guess I just have to do that and then clean-reinstall again.
     
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