Solved Windows 10 PRO

I hesitate to allow Windows update to update my machine to Windows 11 because I paid for Windows 10 PRO and want Windows 11 PRO to be the auto update install. Will that be possible? Is there a Windows 11 PRO?

WindowsUser_007 said:

I hesitate to allow Windows update to update my machine to Windows 11 because I paid for Windows 10 PRO and want Windows 11 PRO to be the auto update install. Will that be possible? Is there a Windows 11 PRO?

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Welcome to Eleven Forum.

Yes, there is a Windows 11 Pro, and if you let Windows Update upgrade from 10 to 11 then Pro is what you should get.

Your PC has a digital license for Pro, and that digital license has not changed, it is identical for Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Sure its possible. 10 Pro and 11 Pro use the same key/digital licence. It is totally seamless.

Like all things, always a good plan to make an image backup of current installation using tools like Macrium Reflect or Aomei Backupper before you do the upgrade in case things go wrong.

Please edit your profile with ALL your hardware specs. It will help us to help you


Does your computer meets the Win 11 requirements?

Not everyone like Win 11 so I suggest you create a Win 10 drive image of your current installation and then upgrade to Win 11. If you don't like it you can recover the Win 10 from the image created.

Win 11 will see the Win 10 license. My three Win 10 Pro updated to 11 pro

This is not necessarily true. I have a Dell laptop which originally had an OEM Windows 10 licence which I then upgraded to the Pro version by buying a Pro upgrade key. I recently did a clean install of Windows 10 when it activated with the standard OEM version of Windows 10. I has to reinsert the Windows 10 Pro licence key for it to activate with the Pro version.

Steve C said:

This is not necessarily true. I have a Dell laptop which originally had an OEM Windows 10 licence which I then upgraded to the Pro version by buying a Pro upgrade key. I recently did a clean install of Windows 10 when it activated with the standard OEM version of Windows 10. I has to reinsert the Windows 10 Pro licence key for it to activate with the Pro version.

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Doing a clean install is different than doing an upgrade. The clean install is reading the imbedded key.

Depends on your PC. Win10 still allows non UEFI (I.E MBR Bios boots) , doesn't require TPM or sec boot and can work on 32 bit machines.

Depends on what your hardware is and what you need to do with it.

Although I use W11 on VM's mainly I still prefer W10 -- but that's probably just me, I stuck with XP long after people had switched to Win 8 (total disaster of an OS), Win 8.1 - a bit better sorting out the dogs dinner of a mess of Win 8, and Vista - a good OS but totally inappropraite for a load of hardware available at the time.

Win 7 was OK but had Ms continued with XP --IMHO best solution of the lot - would have been XP / 64. But that's old history now. It was based on W2003 server which old hands here might remember as one of the most efficient Windows OS'es ever. (Although Win 2021 LTS server edition is not too bad either).

Cheers
jimbo