

This key will upgrade your device to Windows 10 Pro, but will not activate it.Īfter your device is upgraded to Windows 10 Pro, you'll need to activate Windows with your Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Pro Pack, Windows 8.1 Pro, or Windows 8.1 Pro Pack product key. There's no possible way this product key is not valid, but I finally gave up and decided I would use the product key from another unopened copy of Windows 10 Pro that I have. To upgrade from Windows 10 Home if you have a Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Pro Pack, Windows 8.1 Pro, or Windows 8.1 Pro Pack product key, enter the generic/default/public key below. It's not a character-confusion issue (for example, between a B and an 8), because the product code is printed quite clearly on the little card that came with Windows 10 Pro. You can try upgrading your edition using this MS provided product key So if it finds windows 8 home OEM key on your bios it installs windows 10 home OEM on your PC.Ī few more bits of information i found are as follows: I have not looked into the release notes to see if there is something that says Activation from Settings is not set up to work yet.I believe windows 10 OEM checks the BIOS of the windows 8 machine for a CD key and if it sees one it uses that edition of the bios windows as the version of windows 10 it installs. I don't know if this will help your situation, but I can say that I saw exactly what you were describing, and if you enter the key during the actual install, it appears to work. I have not gotten around to trying the in-place upgrade yet. Just as an FYI, based on the earlier response, the 2 machines I was seeing this issue on, were not upgrades, they were brand new installs on a blank hard drive. Then click in Windows-Activation the text 'Change product key'. Please press the key combination Windows+R and command c ontrol 2. I didn't bother running a wireshark or anything to see what kind of response I was getting when trying to activate from Settings. Enter a new product key in excess of Windows-10/11 System 1. if I were to guess, they made something in the install to take into account these testing keys, but the Activation function within Settings, has not been updated to reflect that, so it thinks you are activating a live version of Windows, and that is not a valid key there.

I wiped them out and this time entered the key during install, and it successfully activated.


I didnt delete anything and didnt run any cleanup software. I attempted to roll back to 7 but it said needed files had been deleted. Couldnt get my audio interface to work because of the driver, no update coming because of the age of the unit. I ran into the same issue on 2 of my 2019 servers. Windows 7 activation key blocked after downgrading from 10. Did you install, choose NOT to enter the product key, then after the install was done, try to enter and activate the key? if so, that does not appear to work.
