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yeolinski
Hi there!
I realize that this has already been solved many times, but for some reason it won't work for me.
So as the title suggests, we upgraded some of our hardware (the motherboard among it due to crashing) and decided to reinstall our new windows on it (we bought a usb a few months back). For some reason, unprompted, windows decided to upgrade itself to pro, and now wouldn't accept our home edition key.
I've tried various solutions after troubleshooting to no avail: including changing EditionID both to home and to core (plus the product name and all that jazz in the registry editor).
I can tell that it did something, because now instead of simply asking for activation, it writes: "we can't activate windows on this device as the previous version of windows was not activated prior to updating." I tried to reinstall (several times using this process), but every time it goes back to pro.
I can't really install the computer from desktop using the usb, because for some reason the setup from the usb refuses to open (it does go through boot though), so I've tried downloading the iso version, but it won't let me pick edition either -- immediately decides it's pro, despite the registry editor fix.
This is really frustrating, especially considering it keeps prompting me to buy a legitimate copy every step of the way. We just bought windows 10 a few months ago; how is it possible that it's so unfriendly to the user? Please help me, I'm already at loss of what to do.
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I realize that this has already been solved many times, but for some reason it won't work for me.
So as the title suggests, we upgraded some of our hardware (the motherboard among it due to crashing) and decided to reinstall our new windows on it (we bought a usb a few months back). For some reason, unprompted, windows decided to upgrade itself to pro, and now wouldn't accept our home edition key.
I've tried various solutions after troubleshooting to no avail: including changing EditionID both to home and to core (plus the product name and all that jazz in the registry editor).
I can tell that it did something, because now instead of simply asking for activation, it writes: "we can't activate windows on this device as the previous version of windows was not activated prior to updating." I tried to reinstall (several times using this process), but every time it goes back to pro.
I can't really install the computer from desktop using the usb, because for some reason the setup from the usb refuses to open (it does go through boot though), so I've tried downloading the iso version, but it won't let me pick edition either -- immediately decides it's pro, despite the registry editor fix.
This is really frustrating, especially considering it keeps prompting me to buy a legitimate copy every step of the way. We just bought windows 10 a few months ago; how is it possible that it's so unfriendly to the user? Please help me, I'm already at loss of what to do.
Continue reading...