Note that Windows Ultimate will not have this feature since it’s at the highest edition already. You can basically skip editions.Ĭlick on Start, then type in anytime upgrade into the search box and click on Windows Anytime Upgrade to get started. Also, for Windows 7, you can upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate without having to upgrade to Professional first. Upgrade Windows 7 using Windows Anytime Upgradeįor Windows 7, once you upgrade to a higher edition, you really can’t revert back without some serious registry hacking, etc. This really shouldn’t be a big issue, but it’s good to know. To use it, you’ll follow the steps above, but choose I already have a product key to enter the new key. Note that Amazon only sells a keycard, which will contain the product key for Windows 8.1 Pro. At that point, the Home edition will be $99 and Pro will be $199. The only place you can get a Windows 8.1 Pro upgrade is from a third-party seller like Amazon for a whopping $137! That really doesn’t make a lot of sense considering you can upgrade Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 for free until July 29th, 2016. If you try to go to Control Panel, Windows Update, click on Add features to Windows 8.1, and then click on I want to buy a product key online, you’ll get a message saying that no products were found in your region. Basically, no one really uses Windows 8 anymore and therefore they are trying to get everyone upgraded to Windows 10. Upgrade Windows 8.1 to Higher EditionĪs of October 2015, Microsoft no longer sells upgrade packs to Windows 8 or 8.1 Home to Windows 8 or 8.1 Pro. It takes just a few minutes and you’ll just have to restart your computer once after it has finished. Once you buy it, Windows will start the process for upgrading Windows 10 Home to Pro.
This will load the Windows Store app and allow you to purchase the upgrade for $99.99. This will take you to the Activation screen where you will see a Go to Store link at the bottom. At the bottom, you will see a Change product key or upgrade your edition of Windows link.
Now click on System and then click on About. To upgrade Windows 10, click on Start and then Settings. If you have Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 Enterprise, you can upgrade that to Windows 10 Enterprise. You have to buy it directly from Microsoft and usually with a volume license. You only have 30 days because that’s how long Windows keeps the previous version of Windows before deleting it.Īlso, for Windows 10, you can’t upgrade directly from Pro to Enterprise. When you upgrade from Home to Professional, you can downgrade or revert back within 30 days unless you run Disk Cleanup and remove previous Windows installations. For Windows 10, there are basically just three editions: Home, Professional and Enterprise.
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