If you find my post to be helpful in anyway, please click vote as helpful. once complete, remove USB, boot to drive, complete Windows 10 OOBE. Follow installation instructions through the installer. If you find that my post has answered your question, please mark it as the answer. Windows 10 ISO flashed to a USB using the Windows 10 Media Creation tool which can be found on Microsofts website, insert into PC and boot from USB by using your boot menu key while the machine turns on. If you originally upgraded from Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 click the option I dont have a key and Do this later. Windows 10 setup will prompt you for a product key during installation a couple times. Windows 10 Home in-place upgrade will be done now. Select your Language, Time and Keyboard method then click Next. When asked, enter your validWindows 10 Home product key and select what to keep (settings, personal files and apps, only personal Insert the Windows 10 Homeinstallation media, do an in-place upgrade by launching the setup from desktop (not booting with Windows 10 Home install media) In your case it should at the moment show Windows 10 Professionalīrowse to key HKEY_Local Machine > Software > Wow6432Node > Microsoft > Windows NT > CurrentVersion, change the same two values as in steps 3 and 4 In your case it should at the moment show ProĬhange ProductName to Windows 10 Home. You may want to suggest that they can run win 7 in a Hyper. The second sticking point is you cannot downgrade from home to Pro without buying new licenses. Check with the computer maker to see if there are win 7 drivers. Open Registry Editor(WIN + R, type regedit, hit Enter)īrowse to key HKEY_Local Machine > Software > Microsoft > Windows NT > CurrentVersionĬhange EditionID to Home (double click EditionID, change value, click OK). If it came pre-installed with win 10 there may not be win 7 drivers for it and if not you absolutely cannot downgrade. You could try the following work around then test your luck: Unfortunately, clean install is your only option, you can't downgrade from Pro to Home.

Downgrading from windows 10 pro to home