Hi all,
Great forum and plenty of information already !
Story goes, my laptop (Dell) has an embedded key or version information of windows home. I had already purchased a W10 Pro key that I was using and then "upgraded" to windows 11 insider a month or so ago which was also Win 11 PRO.
Fast forward to today and I created a new ISO USB with W11, assumed the ei.cfg/pid.txt would work in the same way as it did with W10 and away I went.
But, as you can tell by this thread, windows 11 home has been installed.
I know I could change the key to the Pro one and effectively upgrade but I don't work that way and prefer for any major release or update, to do a clean install.
Assuming the pid/ei method no longer works, is there another to bypass the home aspect and go straight to pro?
Thanks in advance
Great forum and plenty of information already !
Story goes, my laptop (Dell) has an embedded key or version information of windows home. I had already purchased a W10 Pro key that I was using and then "upgraded" to windows 11 insider a month or so ago which was also Win 11 PRO.
Fast forward to today and I created a new ISO USB with W11, assumed the ei.cfg/pid.txt would work in the same way as it did with W10 and away I went.
But, as you can tell by this thread, windows 11 home has been installed.
I know I could change the key to the Pro one and effectively upgrade but I don't work that way and prefer for any major release or update, to do a clean install.
Assuming the pid/ei method no longer works, is there another to bypass the home aspect and go straight to pro?
Thanks in advance
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11