Converting to Windows 10 Home, Help

Good Afternoon,

I have a product key to activate my windows for the computer I'm on but I'm on Professional instead of Home so it has the watermark stating that I need to activate windows.

I was wondering where online I could find the installation setup for windows 10 HOME.

I tried this from the Microsoft website, but upon finishing the setup it only gave me the option to install PRO;

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10

Thank you.

Ghot said:

Hello @ayaitsjacob , welcome to Ten Forums...



The product key determines whether Windows is Home or Pro.
I don't think you can use a Windows 10 Pro key to activate Windows 10 Home.

Let me show you an image to give you a better idea of what I'm talking about,

TechBench by WZT (v4.1.1)

You can check by pointing dism++ at sources\install.wim and it will tell you the images.

I would format the windows partition and apply the home image to that partition.
You can do it from the booted installation media. Boot it up, open cmd, type diskpart and format the windows partition.

Then use dism to apply the home image from the install.wim/esd that is in the installation media sources folder.
To make it easier, you can pop dism++ on the usb stick and use that to apply.



Dism++10.1.1000.100.zip

If you want a clean install of Windows 10 Home, download and run the Media Creation tool, use it to create a bootable USB stick or DVD, then boot from it.

Some people think the kind of conversion you want is possible, but try it at your own risk.

How to Downgrade Windows 10 Pro to Home | by Theo Lucia | Medium

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