

A partial product key will also be displayed and whether it is licensed. You should see what edition you have (Home, Pro), and the second line will tell you if you have Retail, OEM, or Volume. Wait a few seconds for the Windows Script Manager to appear and tell you which license type you have.

There are a few possible commands depending on whether you use PowerShell, Command Prompt, or Windows Terminal: This process took so much work before.Īlso, I never saw an error screen, it just worked.TIP: Hard to fix Windows Problems? Repair/Restore Missing Windows OS Files Damaged by Malware with a few clicksįinding out which type you have is easy to do, so let's get that out of the way. Your method instantly adds the new computer to my dashboard. I built an Azure active directory and use intune to keep all the computers organized. We have pro keys but honestly it was more work entering them than your quick trick. I am so grateful!!! I am going to be using this trick for years to come. Your trick really saved me a ton of time. I had to install a bunch of software first too. I have had to go through the steps of creating either a MS account user or local user in setup and then do the migration to Pro inside of windows. I buy computers mostly from Costco on sale and so they always have Windows Home. Well, not super small anymore, we have 80 employees now. I don't have enough points to comment on amazing answer by Baa. For many, they will have to press shift+f10 and maybe shift+fn+f10 to get the CMD to pop up. I wanted to add a note to the above answer. However, I then ran slui.exe /upk to uninstall the Product Key, and then tried changepk.exe again, after rebooting the OOBE was now for Windows 11 Pro and I could create a local user and domain join. I ran slui.exe 0x2a 0xC004F069 and it said This errored with 0xC004F069 and said to run SLUI to get full details.

I also tried slmgr.vbs /ipk VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T.

I installed Windows 11 Home into a Virtual Machine and tested this using the Generic Keys from this website, this is what I found to get to the steps above: This is not always necessary but I suspect sometimes the Home license will be installed and needs to be removed first. Technically you can open CMD while it's installing Updates but I don't recommend this because it will restart without warning and might interrupt the following process. Once you hit the login screen, press F10 to open CMD. Choose language, keyboard layout, device name etc.
