{"id":854,"date":"2016-09-28T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=854"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:39:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T08:39:58","slug":"upgrade-windows-10-home-windows-10-professional-valid-product-key","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/upgrade-windows-10-home-windows-10-professional-valid-product-key\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Professional (with a valid Product key)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve purchased a valid Windows 10 Pro product key and you wish to <strong>upgrade<\/strong> your standard version of <strong>Windows 10<\/strong> to <strong>Professional<\/strong>, here are the instructions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right Click on the Start Button and choose\u00a0<strong>System<\/strong> from the menu which pops up<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Windows-10-System.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-902\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Windows-10-System.png\" alt=\"windows-10-system\" width=\"301\" height=\"609\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>On the Windows that pops up scroll down to\u00a0<strong>Windows Activation<\/strong> and click on\u00a0<strong>Change Product Key<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Change-Product-Key.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-903\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Change-Product-Key.png\" alt=\"change-product-key\" width=\"566\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Change-Product-Key.png 566w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Change-Product-Key-300x63.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Enter your Windows 10 Professional Product Key. \u00a0The Cancel button will change and allow you to continue to upgrade your Windows 10 version once you&#8217;ve entered in a valid Windows 10 Pro product key.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Enter-Windows-Product-Key.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-904\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Enter-Windows-Product-Key.png\" alt=\"enter-windows-product-key\" width=\"659\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Enter-Windows-Product-Key.png 659w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Enter-Windows-Product-Key-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Your computer will restart after installing the new Window 10 Pro features.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve purchased a valid Windows 10 Pro product key and you wish to upgrade your standard version of Windows 10 to Professional, here are the instructions: Right Click on the Start Button and choose\u00a0System from the menu which pops up On the Windows that pops up scroll down to\u00a0Windows Activation and click on\u00a0Change Product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[452],"article-tag":[701],"class_list":["post-854","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-10","article-tag-upgrade-windows-10-pro-product-key"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":4,"sum_votes":14},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}