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1. #HOW TO CONVERT TO WINDOWS 10 PRO LICENSE KEY#
2. #HOW TO CONVERT TO WINDOWS 10 PRO INSTALL#
3. #HOW TO CONVERT TO WINDOWS 10 PRO UPGRADE#
4. #HOW TO CONVERT TO WINDOWS 10 PRO PRO#

Technically, it’s possible: Microsoft advises that you can try out Windows 10 S on Windows 10 Pro-which, of course, means a $99 upgrade just so you can go back to Windows 10 S. Resetting your PC won’t bring Windows 10 S back-we tried, even with a cloud download. When we say that switching from Windows 10 S to Windows Home is a one-way street, we mean it.

#HOW TO CONVERT TO WINDOWS 10 PRO PRO#

But if you type “upgrade” and hit ENTER, you’ll be directed to the Windows 10 Pro upgrade page within the Store. Oddly, in 2020 Microsoft has eliminated the suggested Windows 10 upgrade result that appears at the top of the suggestions, here. Windows 10 S makes it a little difficult to find the Windows 10 Pro upgrade, but searching will bring it up.

#HOW TO CONVERT TO WINDOWS 10 PRO LICENSE KEY#

But we’d probably say that if your PC began with Windows 10 S, it probably doesn’t need to run Windows 10 Pro, and it will cost $99 to upgrade unless you have a separate Windows 10 Pro license key lying around. If you’d like, you can then upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro-and for power users, there are some reasons for doing so. Accessing the “Run” app, though, and typing “Cmd” brought it up, however, and it ran as before. For whatever reason, after switching the Surface Laptop Go to Windows 10 Home, that app wasn’t accessible from the Start menu. I typically use the Command Line app (or PowerShell) as a way for Windows to tell me about the laptop’s battery. I did notice one quirk that I hadn’t before. Chances are that Windows 10 in S Mode will be called out in the product description, such as in this HP laptop with S Mode Remove non-product link. Though Microsoft likely hopes that Windows 10 S PCs will be handed out by educators in the classroom, you’ll more commonly find some inexpensive PCs sold with Windows 10 with S Mode at major retailers like Amazon. If a teacher wants their students to use a non-Store app, those students will be forced to switch to Windows 10 Home. To support Windows 10 S, Microsoft orchestrated two hardware ecosystems around it: a collection of sub-$300 rugged clamshell notebooks for younger students, and the handful of Surface devices that we’ve mentioned above. The Surface Laptop Go creates the most confusion, because it’ll likely be used in classrooms where others are using full-fledged Windows 10 machines. (This includes other browsers like Google Chrome, for instance.) Instead, Windows 10 S may pop up a notice warning you that your app is forbidden, and refers you to the Windows Store for alternatives. (You can pin a Web app, like Facebook, to the Start menu or Taskbar as an “app,” however.)īecause of the additional security surrounding Windows 10 S, the operating system actively blocks any attempts to sideload apps from the Web or other sources. In fact, there’s really no antivirus support at all within Windows 10 in S Mode, though Microsoft would argue that its required approval of every app means nothing can sneak in. That means that certain Windows apps won’t run, either, including PowerShell and the Command Line, as well as Windows Defender. Microsoft prevents users from downloading apps from anywhere but the Windows Store, however, and secures those apps inside a sandboxed container. When this user logs off and on again, or a second user logs in, the company wallpaper will show.Windows 10 S is simple enough: Users are presented with an OS that appears to be almost identical to Windows 10. So when the first user logs in, the standard Microsoft wallpaper will be shown.

#HOW TO CONVERT TO WINDOWS 10 PRO INSTALL#

Sure it works perfect when a users logs in: the device will be upgraded to Enterprise.īut we want to use a predefined company wallpaper (Blob storage method) and this will work only with Windows 10 Enterprise. Insert the Windows 10 Home install media, do an in-place upgrade by launching the setup from desktop (not booting with Windows install media) 8. In Intune we created a policy to upgrade Windows 10 to Enterprise, this policy is device based. We have 5000+ Microsoft 365 E3 licenses, so Windows 10 Enterprise is licensed. Is it allowed to have the license upgraded to Enterprise by using Intune with a generic KMS key from Microsoft? Our company is using lots of Dell laptop with a built-in Windows 10 Professional license.