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Hello again,
I didn't have a USB or DVD large enough, so I downloaded windows 10 to an external hard drive. After the download, I went to the folder on the external hard drive and double-clicked the 'setup" folder and it started.
I went through the prompts. When I got to the prompt it defaulted to the "Plain windows 10 United States addition", so I chose that. At the end of the installation it said that it was ready to download windows 10 Pro. Since we knew from the reports that I posted earlier, I need the "Home" version. I aborted the download from the external drive and started over.
When I returned to that prompt again, I chose "Single Language" version. When it got to the end of the install from the external hard-drive, it asked me for a key. I entered in each key from the key report and none of them worked.
I think it may still be reading the windows pro key instead of looking at the windows 8.1 in the bios
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Single language version will not work - keys are different.
You just need the one marked "windows 10", and choose Home during the install.
I think you are also probably using an older version of the iso where pro and home were separate..
Redownload using this link
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Double click on it, run setup.exe and it will not even ask for a version or key.
You have to do a clean install in order to install Windows 10 Home. You can't downgrade Pro to Home in-place which is what you were doing in your post above. In order to do a clean install, you have to have a Windows 10 installation media that the computer boots from - not just running setup from within your existing Windows 10 Pro installation.
Also note what I posted in post #4:
If you want a permanently activated Windows 10 you are going to have to make a USB flash drive or DVD containing the Windows 10 install files that you can and do boot your computer from and do a clean install of Windows 10 Home - regular version, NOT "N" and NOT Single Language. You will have to boot your computer from it, wipe out your current Windows 10 Pro and install Windows 10 Home. You will erase all your installed programs and data so make sure you have a backup of what you want to keep.
Or purchase a Windows 10 Pro product key.
You can't downgrade Windows 10 Pro to Home that way. It has to be a clean install. To do a clean install you have to boot the computer from the install media. Double clicking and running setup.exe will only install Windows 10 Pro over the existing Windows 10 Pro... what we call an in-place upgrade repair install.