Suffice to say I am really disappointed how limited Win 10 Home is. I had Win 7 Home on a previous laptop and I could do anything I needed to including disabling Windows Defender and more. I downloaded a Win 10 iso which supposedly included also the Pro version but all it did was reinstall Win Home again. During the "upgrade" process I was not provided an option to upgrade or try out Windows 10 x64 Pro. I did the installation within Windows 10 Home not boot from Windows via USB. Does anyone know what I was doing wrong? Must I create a boot USB with Win 10 iso or is there a specific Windows 10 x64 ISO I need? Thanks
I upgraded my 2 friends laptops that came w/ W10 Home to W10 Pro by using a Win7 Home Premium key, very easy.
You can online upgrade to any available SKU you want, by key, this should not remove or disable your recovery image. Most OEM systems have an option to create a full recovery USB key too. Enterprise or Education would be the SKUs which give you the most control.
Thanks again. Do we have a listing of sizes of the various different Windows installations? BTW. I "upgraded" my WIndows 10 Home from an official WIndows ISO file to Windows Home (thinking it was going to upgrade to Pro). When I realized it wasn't Win 10 Pro, I went to do a reset (recovery) and I was told I can't do so. I had to use Acronis and re-image my drive C from the image file I had earlier created. The Lenovo full recovery USB relies on me using a USB-C to USB adapter or something similar. It's not your conventional reinstall the image process from USB.
All business and consumer sku will be approx. of the same size, only administrative settings are different and maybe education is a bit smaller, it has less pre-installed UWP apps.
How do I do this — upgrade from Home to Pro without doing a clean install first? You wrote previously... But you're saying boot with it. That sounds like a clean install? I changed the product key to the one you quoted above and ran the ISO from within Windows. During the confirmation process, Windows asked me to confirm whether I wish to upgrade to Windows 10 Home (same as before), I then aborted the process. I want to do an install from Windows 10 Home itself without having to reboot and install it fro DOS or the boot startup application. Is this not possible?
