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01-05-2018, 11:29 PM
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I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Can I upgrade Win10 Home to Professional without clean installation?
I got good deal on a copy of win10 Pro DVD, what I am using now is Win10 Home. I tried to upgrade from control panel -> Setting, it seems the key does not allow me to perform simply version upgrade.
Is clean installation the only way?
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01-06-2018, 12:18 AM
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I was always under the impression that Win10 allows you to just change the product key (from Control Panel > System and Security > System) and you can change / upgrade.
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01-06-2018, 02:14 AM
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I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Me too, but shop said the key is for clean installation. I tried another HDD to perform a clean installation, it works fine.
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01-06-2018, 07:18 AM
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Even if you could just 'upgrade' from Home, I highly recommend a clean install.
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01-06-2018, 12:14 PM
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clean installation, but only when you need to start from fresh again imo
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01-06-2018, 12:42 PM
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you are suppose to be allowed to enter in the key and it will download and upgrade the windows version.
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01-06-2018, 09:15 PM
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I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lilaznviper
you are suppose to be allowed to enter in the key and it will download and upgrade the windows version.
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I thought so, but it seems the key is not for upgrade
 will reinstall everything again
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