Fantastic guide, straightforward and useful. Worked perfectly on my wife's laptop; activated without issues too as she was using a digital license :) Can't believe Microsoft doesn't make it simpler or more intuitive for the average consumer - even their help page doesn't suggest the right things, and it was triggering Windows 11 Pro instead via the Creation Tool!
hey brother, can i ask. Did you backup your data before you downgrade it back to windows home? if not, did you loss any of your file after downgrading it? thanks
I accidentally changed my product key from Windows Home to Windows Enterprise, and after spending hours of my day trying to figure it out, THIS video helped me revert it back to Windows Home. Thank you so much!
I bought a notebook HP with windows 11 Pro installed, but an error said that windows 11 pro wasn't active because the PC has a windows 11 home key. So I followed this video to downgrade from Pro to Home and it WORKS WORKS WOOOOOOOORKS THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!
You are absolutely amazing! I opted into the 11 pro trail or whatever they call it and with having my phones and tablets and smart TVs and both major game consoles I barely use my PC. I honestly and obviously didn't pay attention to the fact I had 10 days to do the rollback and now that it's been 6 months I need to activate windows and they obviously aren't accepting my key seeing as it's not the same op sys. I refuse to sit on a chat with customer service for something I knew is not a complicated matter however it's simplicity is hidden for a reason... Like making the easiest route to just buy a product key for pro. Any who point is I've subscribed because I am so appreciative of your honesty! It is so unjust how companies do this to people! Lucky there are us few who know better and even fewer that know how (and thank Goodness for people like you)! Wonderful! Love it!
Thanks you sooo much bro! ❤❤❤ My problem is "I found a generic Windows 11 Pro product jey from Telegram but i didn't know it wouldn't active the windows account and i won't get many features, but unfortunately I used the key and suffered, saw so many vidoes how to get the original product key and switch back to windows 11 Home. Finally saw your video did every step, before this remove the generic Pro product key using cmd commands, then followed this video and then activated the account " Again thank u bro ❤❤
Thank you so much for this guide. I had huge problems previously to me coming across your video. Probably the best instructional video I have come across, ever. Everything worked as you described. Cant thank you enough.
Thank you very much. I was trying to find a solution and I found your video. It worked and if anyone is also experiencing the same thing, you can follow the step by step instruction in the video.
Absolutely awesome video. Worked like a charm for me. Thanks a ton. Downgrade context: Laptop replacement. In order to install Windows 11 Pro on the new laptop, I had to downgrade to Win 11 Home (Uninstall the Pro version).
Helped me migrate from Windows 11 Pro N to Windows 11 Pro. All I had to do was same as you but removed the N suffixes. 🎉 Had to change versions cause a Pro Activatuon Key doesn't work on Pro N.
I got to the run set up then it said my processor was not supported. But I'm running 11 pro 24H2. So, in my frustration, I downloaded windows 10 pro instead. That worked ok. I'll buy an update licence in October.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I got scammed by what I thought was a legitimate deal on a Windows 11 Pro. I looked everywhere and thought I had just screwed up my new computer….which I wouldn’t have the money to fix! Your video was an answer to prayer….God bless you for this!
Thanks so much My problem was I built a new pc and tried to use a windows 11 pro activation key which wouldn’t work unless I reverted to windows 11 and use a 11 key first this helped me so much with a lingering problem!
I tried so many different things and this was the only one that worked. Thank you so much for this! Amazing how simple this was. Even more amazing(ly stupid) how Microsoft doesn't make it easier by just hitting a button or whatever. Either way, thank you!
@@wagdshidid6983 cuz I bought home and tried to use pro but the key I used was invalid so I had to switch back to home or my computer would say i need to activate windows with an annoying watermark and restricting features.
I have a digital license for Windows 11 Home and inactivated Windows 11 Pro is installed on my laptop. Will it work in that case? Edit: I did it and it went smooth as butter. The reinstallation took less than 30 mins. Had been stuck with a digital license for 6 months. Thanks sooo much bro!
a few questions, after doing the o.s swap, what happens to the pro version? is it automatically erased, overwritten or is it moved aside? do we need to delete it manually? if so, where to find it? also, can you do a video on converting w-10 pro to w-11 home? thanks. 👍
Likely not. You will need to have a valid product key for Windows 11 pro or Windows 10 pro in order to activate. Microsoft recently disabled activation with the product key from older versions of Windows such as Windows 7 and Windows 8. So if you installed Windows 10 pro with a Windows 7 or Windows 8 product key, it will not be able to activate once you upgrade to Windows 11. Microsoft is starting to be difficult 😡
Hello I did all the steps and it work! but i need to revert back to my windows home edition license, it says in settings that windows 11 home isn’t activated, I troubleshooted it then this massege showed “We found a windows 11 home digital license for this device running windows 11 pro. To activate using this digital license, you need to install windows 11 home”
I really liked the tutorial, I would like to know if when I return to the Home version the activation key is activated automatically, as my PC had the original factory key but when switching to pro it kept asking to activate Windows. Will it come back automatically by Downgrade?
it says my processor isn’t supported for this version of windows, but my PC was running windows 11 Pro and it also says the PC must support TPM 2.0 please need help 🙏
Please reply😢 I don't know but my friend is installed my laptop in crack windows 11 pro but after sometimes... this week showings windows watermark but my laptop was pre-installed window 11 home so that enter this product key in windows 11 pro but not supported showing install windows 11 home so work you're real window 11 home and This time found your video follow all steps but last 6:10 installed time showing windows 11 Pro but i need windows 11 home please help me and reply
Greetings! I apologize for the late reply. If your friend installed a crack I highly recommend this PC is erased and a full reinstall is done for Windows 11 Home edition. Cracked versions of software can contain viruses and/or malware.
hi i need help! so ive installed the ISO, editted the registry. but when i go to run setup, it just doesnt open. it asks me to confirm if it can make changes, and ive tried deleting it to reinstall it but it says its running in my system, but i cant find it. please help im not sure what to do
Its really hard to say what is causing this. If you are running the setup and it doesn't open on your PC, then it might be time to do a fresh install. After you answer the UAC message to allow it to make changes the setup screen should appear. There might be something else going on with the system. You can try looking at the event logs to see if those provide any insight.
I wanna do this, because my friend upgraded my laptop to enterprise edition just to use remote desktop Activation is done by a bat file in an article in GitHub Then laptop started lagging, i reset my laptop expecting that it will ask for version selection But my expectation is wrong So finally watching this video, and the installation is in process
hi, i can't go any further since it asked me to reset exp: 'choose what to keep'(second choices where any apps and setting will be deleted) think i still need to reset my pc to downgrade
Check that you're installing the same language and edition of windows. If they installed language or Edition do not match it, will not allow you to keep your files settings and apps.
Thanks Sir Tek411, I follow your video , but I wanted to downgrade to W11 Home Single Language because I used to had W10 Home Single Language , because I just write in the Register Editor W 11 Home and Core , so i could installed just the Home, but I lost the mouse and keyboard drivers , but sucessfully recognize other keyboard and mouse so I could finish the installation. what do you think about the difference between home and single language. I didn¨t find any video that teached me about it ?? what do you think . afortunately I didn"t lost my digital activation from Windows. Thanks your comments.
Your very welcome. This article does a good job explaining the difference between W10 Home and Home SL. W11 is the same as far as I know. answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/difference-between-home-edition-and-home-single/7e567265-dabd-4336-b229-091e9234e8a5
@@InwardBeautyMinistries yea, I just reverted. Alot of blue screens when I manually put some basic autoruns off, internet loses etc. With home seems better for now. Also my motherboard doesnt like fast ram ”supports upto 7200” yaaa right… so unstable. Had to drop to 6000 and need to test more to see if my games crash all the time. 7200mhz, 13900kf and 4080 on Asus Prime Z790-P doesnt work well at all together on that motherboard
@@InwardBeautyMinistries no problem! If you need help you can come back to this and comment. I have learned alot these past 2mounths when optimizing my computer for gaming. Cs2 made me to do everything, CSGO was fine with defaults. Now my pc runs super smooth super low latency etc.
This help article gives info on why this happens and how to resolve it. Hope this helps. answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/unable-to-keep-files-apps-and-settings-during/8f54c760-c3f0-4cea-b279-8529e26eaeb0
Hey, I'm just concered if the update is working because at the start it was going pretty fast however then it reached 61% and has been like that for more than an hour. Is this normal?
Hey! Thank you for the video. I’m just wondering, when I go to my settings it still says that it needs the key for windows 11. Is there any way to get rid of this notification or is it just something I have to deal with?
Negative. See video description. For home SL it is as follows: For Windows 11 Home Single Language: Change EditionID to Home SL Change Product Name to Windows 10 Home SL
I bought my laptop(bnew) with license to Windows 11 Home but somehow it did upgrade to Windows 11 Pro. Now it shows "Activate Windows" watermark, if I follow these steps and downgrade it to Home, do i have to enter license key? I did troubleshoot and it says, "We found a Windows 11 Home digital license for this device running Windows 11 Pro. To activate using this digital license, you need to install Windows 11 Home." Please tell me if I have to enter license key? All I see at my laptop is a product key with so many "X" and the last 5 characters😅
No this is a downgrade so it should retain all of the above. Always do a full backup beforehand though just in case something goes wrong. that way you can recover it.
It sounds like Windows 11 was installed on an unsupported system via a workaround. I have been told that newer versions of Windows 11 will no longer work for this. Please see the system reqs for Windows 11. Sorry I can't be of more help on this. support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-system-requirements-86c11283-ea52-4782-9efd-7674389a7ba3
Hello there TEK411, do you happen to know how to do this for the new 23H2 on unsupported Hardware using the keep everything option? when i try this method on 23H2 11 Pro the only option is to keep nothing.
Is windows installed on C:\Windows? Also, make sure your installing the same edition and language. Otherwise there is not option to keep your existing file/apps.
Can you you help... I was part of W10 (Pro) DEV channel when W11 was released in lots of versions. BUT my PC doesn't meet W11 spec's. I was only allowed it as part of the DEV channel. On October 10 2023 "Pro" support ended meaning i need to roll back to "Home" but i cant as my PC doesn't met W11 spec's. Do you have any ideas.... Ideally I want to stay with W11... Thanks.
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Fantastic guide, straightforward and useful. Worked perfectly on my wife's laptop; activated without issues too as she was using a digital license :)
Can't believe Microsoft doesn't make it simpler or more intuitive for the average consumer - even their help page doesn't suggest the right things, and it was triggering Windows 11 Pro instead via the Creation Tool!
Was struggling to downgrade my window 11 pro ...thanks bro ........... greatest work with simple and clean video..
hey brother, can i ask. Did you backup your data before you downgrade it back to windows home? if not, did you loss any of your file after downgrading it? thanks
Just wanted to share that your method works! Thank you for sharing this tutorial!!
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much! This works for downgrade from Windows 11 pro N to Windows 11 pro.
I accidentally changed my product key from Windows Home to Windows Enterprise, and after spending hours of my day trying to figure it out, THIS video helped me revert it back to Windows Home. Thank you so much!
hey brother, can i ask. Did you backup your data before you downgrade it back to windows home?
@@efutbol.addict I backed up my data. Anything that couldve gotten deleted wasn't needed.
your very welcome glad it worked out!
Just wanted to re comment. This worked. Thank you so much! I thought it was over 😂. I appreciate this once again!
nice!!!
I bought a notebook HP with windows 11 Pro installed, but an error said that windows 11 pro wasn't active because the PC has a windows 11 home key. So I followed this video to downgrade from Pro to Home and it WORKS WORKS WOOOOOOOORKS THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!
Video is a lifesaver man many thanks🙏🏾
You're very welcome. Glad to help!
@@TEK411Techhow do I activated windows?
You are absolutely amazing! I opted into the 11 pro trail or whatever they call it and with having my phones and tablets and smart TVs and both major game consoles I barely use my PC. I honestly and obviously didn't pay attention to the fact I had 10 days to do the rollback and now that it's been 6 months I need to activate windows and they obviously aren't accepting my key seeing as it's not the same op sys. I refuse to sit on a chat with customer service for something I knew is not a complicated matter however it's simplicity is hidden for a reason... Like making the easiest route to just buy a product key for pro. Any who point is I've subscribed because I am so appreciative of your honesty! It is so unjust how companies do this to people! Lucky there are us few who know better and even fewer that know how (and thank Goodness for people like you)! Wonderful! Love it!
Thank you! Glad you found it helpful.
Thanks you sooo much bro!
❤❤❤ My problem is "I found a generic Windows 11 Pro product jey from Telegram but i didn't know it wouldn't active the windows account and i won't get many features, but unfortunately I used the key and suffered, saw so many vidoes how to get the original product key and switch back to windows 11 Home. Finally saw your video did every step, before this remove the generic Pro product key using cmd commands, then followed this video and then activated the account " Again thank u bro ❤❤
bro how to remov3 the generic product key on cmd?
You're very welcome!
Awesome. Thanks so much for sharing. It really worked and I switched system language from English to my first language as well at the same time.
It worked! Thank you , sir! 😊🎉
Thank you bro! You're truly amazing 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for sharing tutorial. It really worked in my case.❤
Thank you for the video!! It worked. You are the best 🎉
Really life saved hack! Thank you so much 💎💎💎
you are great … thanks man you’re a life saver ..all the best man ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for this guide. I had huge problems previously to me coming across your video. Probably the best instructional video I have come across, ever. Everything worked as you described. Cant thank you enough.
Great to hear! Thank you so much.
I don’t comment ever. But you sir, are absolutely AMAZING thank you so so much
Wow, thank you!
IT WORKS, THANKYOUUU SO MUCH ❤
I had to do this because I bought the wrong key 😭 I bought home instead of pro for my windows so I had to switch 😭
Sam vro
Literally did this last week smh and just now felt like fixing it
@@austinwatkins7817same thing I did except I downloaded enterprise and then bought a home key and had to upgrade and it has been a pain
I purchased the pro key by accident myself. Really only needed home.
Same man
Thank you very much. I was trying to find a solution and I found your video. It worked and if anyone is also experiencing the same thing, you can follow the step by step instruction in the video.
You're welcome!
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Absolutely awesome video. Worked like a charm for me. Thanks a ton.
Downgrade context: Laptop replacement. In order to install Windows 11 Pro on the new laptop, I had to downgrade to Win 11 Home (Uninstall the Pro version).
Hey , tysm for everything worked out. I really appreciate this video.
You are so welcome!
Omg you save my life thank you much you are a angel in disguise
Helped me migrate from Windows 11 Pro N to Windows 11 Pro. All I had to do was same as you but removed the N suffixes. 🎉
Had to change versions cause a Pro Activatuon Key doesn't work on Pro N.
great video!❤ solved my problem for 1 year😂 thanks a lot
It worked, but I had to run update overnight, was kinda stuck at 73%, but the next day, it was finished
Thank you Thank you so much Bro
awesome video
it really save me a lot of troubles
You're welcome!
It helped me a lot and I restored my windows to windows 11 home and not a single data got deleted. Appreciated your work brother
Glad it helped!
Did your activation key return automatically?
It worked! Thank you so much. Thumbs up from me. :)
You're welcome!
I got to the run set up then it said my processor was not supported. But I'm running 11 pro 24H2. So, in my frustration, I downloaded windows 10 pro instead. That worked ok. I'll buy an update licence in October.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I got scammed by what I thought was a legitimate deal on a Windows 11 Pro. I looked everywhere and thought I had just screwed up my new computer….which I wouldn’t have the money to fix! Your video was an answer to prayer….God bless you for this!
your welcome. glad it helped!
Thanks man it worked ❤
Happy to help
Thanks so much
My problem was I built a new pc and tried to use a windows 11 pro activation key which wouldn’t work unless I reverted to windows 11 and use a 11 key first this helped me so much with a lingering problem!
Thank you! You saved me so much trouble
Explained it well thank you so much.
You are welcome!
I had to do this because Microsoft updated my windows to pro and I couldn't even activate it😔. It worked man thanks
I tried so many different things and this was the only one that worked. Thank you so much for this! Amazing how simple this was. Even more amazing(ly stupid) how Microsoft doesn't make it easier by just hitting a button or whatever. Either way, thank you!
This worked perfectly, tysm!
I have one thing, does it work on your actual windows 11 pro computer?
@@fanboy4454 no idea i bought a windows 11 home, you could certainly try.
@@jpppewhat do you mean, this video is about going from pro to home… so why would you need this video if you don’t have pro on your windows ?
@@wagdshidid6983 cuz I bought home and tried to use pro but the key I used was invalid so I had to switch back to home or my computer would say i need to activate windows with an annoying watermark and restricting features.
@@wagdshidid6983 because I upgraded to windows 11 pro but it wasn’t a real key so it didn’t activate
Thank you bro! Your Amazing
I have a digital license for Windows 11 Home and inactivated Windows 11 Pro is installed on my laptop. Will it work in that case?
Edit: I did it and it went smooth as butter. The reinstallation took less than 30 mins. Had been stuck with a digital license for 6 months. Thanks sooo much bro!
welcome
Perfect. Many thanks.
It worked, thank you
Thanks. It really helped
Love you bro.
Thanks! My laptop has a windows key for home but it came with windows pro for some reason. This was very helpful
Same with pc
hey brother, can i ask. Did you backup your data before you downgrade it back to windows home?
@@efutbol.addict No, I didn't have much and no important files on it so I didn't backup anything
@@Jenjenson0 so did you lost any single files after downdgrading?
It works! Thanks
Thanks mate!!
Very helpful thank you worked
oh god thankyouu, i got scamed by license key pro then not active keyy then i found your vidd thx broooo
Legend thank you so much
a few questions, after doing the o.s swap, what happens to the pro version? is it automatically erased, overwritten or is it moved aside? do we need to delete it manually? if so, where to find it? also, can you do a video on converting w-10 pro to w-11 home? thanks. 👍
Great question. The pro version is overwritten with the home version. It's like an upgrade where it keeps all your files, apps, and settings.
Thanks you bro.🎉
Very helpful❤
I saw that it was possible to switch from Windows Home to Windows Pro. I downloaded it and saw that there was no license :(
I upgraded from win 10 pro to win 11 pro but now there is a activate windows water mark does this fix it
Likely not. You will need to have a valid product key for Windows 11 pro or Windows 10 pro in order to activate. Microsoft recently disabled activation with the product key from older versions of Windows such as Windows 7 and Windows 8. So if you installed Windows 10 pro with a Windows 7 or Windows 8 product key, it will not be able to activate once you upgrade to Windows 11. Microsoft is starting to be difficult 😡
Thank you very much ❤
It doesn't need reactivation right? Does it still use the same activation key?
Hello
I did all the steps and it work! but i need to revert back to my windows home edition license, it says in settings that windows 11 home isn’t activated, I troubleshooted it then this massege showed “We found a windows 11 home digital license for this device running windows 11 pro. To activate using this digital license, you need to install windows 11 home”
Thank for help and tutor bro is work 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks man worked great! Ended up trying my old windows 10 pro key but didn’t work so had to downgrade.
You're welcome!
Thank you so much, I repeat Thank you so much.
You are most welcome
I really liked the tutorial, I would like to know if when I return to the Home version the activation key is activated automatically, as my PC had the original factory key but when switching to pro it kept asking to activate Windows. Will it come back automatically by Downgrade?
Yes, it should automatically reactivate.
@@TEK411Tech It really worked, he recognized it, thank you very much.
"What you hv choosen to install" still shows Windows 11 pro even after editing registry settings. Plz help bro🙏🏻🙏🏻
THIS VIDEO SAVED ME. THANK YOU 🫶
it says my processor isn’t supported for this version of windows, but my PC was running windows 11 Pro and it also says the PC must support TPM 2.0 please need help 🙏
U need atleast i3 11th gen cpu I guess ....... what's ur pc specs?
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I don't know but my friend is installed my laptop in crack windows 11 pro but after sometimes... this week showings windows watermark but my laptop was pre-installed window 11 home so that enter this product key in windows 11 pro but not supported showing install windows 11 home so work you're real window 11 home and
This time found your video follow all steps but last 6:10 installed time showing windows 11 Pro but i need windows 11 home please help me and reply
Greetings! I apologize for the late reply. If your friend installed a crack I highly recommend this PC is erased and a full reinstall is done for Windows 11 Home edition. Cracked versions of software can contain viruses and/or malware.
It Works thanks
I have a question, I updated my Windows 11 home to pro by command, but won't the key be lost by doing this procedure?
It should use your digital license if you used a Microsoft account before upgrading to Pro.
hi i need help! so ive installed the ISO, editted the registry. but when i go to run setup, it just doesnt open. it asks me to confirm if it can make changes, and ive tried deleting it to reinstall it but it says its running in my system, but i cant find it. please help im not sure what to do
Its really hard to say what is causing this. If you are running the setup and it doesn't open on your PC, then it might be time to do a fresh install. After you answer the UAC message to allow it to make changes the setup screen should appear. There might be something else going on with the system. You can try looking at the event logs to see if those provide any insight.
I wanna do this, because my friend upgraded my laptop to enterprise edition just to use remote desktop
Activation is done by a bat file in an article in GitHub
Then laptop started lagging, i reset my laptop expecting that it will ask for version selection
But my expectation is wrong
So finally watching this video, and the installation is in process
Thank you so much
You're most welcome
I had to do this because the 'windows activate' was stuck on my screen
Hey Question, is there a reason why it does not give me the option "mount" the Windows 11 iso?
That I am not sure about. If you have no option to moun the ISO you can try creating a USB memory stick instead and then run the setup from there.
hi, i can't go any further since it asked me to reset exp: 'choose what to keep'(second choices where any apps and setting will be deleted) think i still need to reset my pc to downgrade
Check that you're installing the same language and edition of windows. If they installed language or Edition do not match it, will not allow you to keep your files settings and apps.
Thanks Sir Tek411, I follow your video , but I wanted to downgrade to W11 Home Single Language because I used to had W10 Home Single Language , because I just write in the Register Editor W 11 Home and Core , so i could installed just the Home, but I lost the mouse and keyboard drivers , but sucessfully recognize other keyboard and mouse so I could finish the installation. what do you think about the difference between home and single language. I didn¨t find any video that teached me about it ?? what do you think . afortunately I didn"t lost my digital activation from Windows. Thanks your comments.
Your very welcome. This article does a good job explaining the difference between W10 Home and Home SL. W11 is the same as far as I know. answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/difference-between-home-edition-and-home-single/7e567265-dabd-4336-b229-091e9234e8a5
@@TEK411Tech thanks so much !!! I could solve my problem and I installed W Home SL.
It says setup has failed to validate the product key
Pls help
Try the steps in this article to see if they will help. www.kapilarya.com/fix-windows-10-setup-has-failed-to-validate-the-product-key
Don't get the Mount option. In my pc type is WinRAR archive not disc image file. Can u help
it sounds like ISO files have been associated with WinRAR. You can extract the files to a directory on your PC and install them from there.
Not understanding how to save as, the download. It doesn’t give me that option.
From the browser go to settings -> downloads there should be something like "always ask where to download"
@@zelaricsokay I will try this! Trying to save my laptop. Used a stupid Pro Key, thinking I was upgrading lol and messed everything up!
@@InwardBeautyMinistries yea, I just reverted. Alot of blue screens when I manually put some basic autoruns off, internet loses etc. With home seems better for now. Also my motherboard doesnt like fast ram ”supports upto 7200” yaaa right… so unstable. Had to drop to 6000 and need to test more to see if my games crash all the time. 7200mhz, 13900kf and 4080 on Asus Prime Z790-P doesnt work well at all together on that motherboard
@@zelaricsit was a headache that’s now over! Thank you so much for the tips. I appreciate it.
@@InwardBeautyMinistries no problem! If you need help you can come back to this and comment. I have learned alot these past 2mounths when optimizing my computer for gaming. Cs2 made me to do everything, CSGO was fine with defaults. Now my pc runs super smooth super low latency etc.
it doesnt showing me to keep apps and files don't know why maybe because I don't have windows 11 pro genuine key ?
This help article gives info on why this happens and how to resolve it. Hope this helps. answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/unable-to-keep-files-apps-and-settings-during/8f54c760-c3f0-4cea-b279-8529e26eaeb0
THANKS!!!!
Hey, I'm just concered if the update is working because at the start it was going pretty fast however then it reached 61% and has been like that for more than an hour. Is this normal?
Why did my download for windows 11 pro fail?
Hey! Thank you for the video. I’m just wondering, when I go to my settings it still says that it needs the key for windows 11. Is there any way to get rid of this notification or is it just something I have to deal with?
While the downgrade helps you get back to Windows 11 home, you will still need a valid key for Windows 11 home in order for the product to activate.
very helpful
Glad it helped
Why would you want to downgrade from pro to home
If you have a license/activation for home and don't want to pay for Pro.
Pls someone teach me how to change back to windows 11 pro because now I can’t use the windows and I already formatting the pc still the same
Does the edit registry for Home Edition same as Home Single Language?
Negative. See video description. For home SL it is as follows:
For Windows 11 Home Single Language:
Change EditionID to Home SL
Change Product Name to Windows 10 Home SL
I bought my laptop(bnew) with license to Windows 11 Home but somehow it did upgrade to Windows 11 Pro. Now it shows "Activate Windows" watermark, if I follow these steps and downgrade it to Home, do i have to enter license key? I did troubleshoot and it says, "We found a Windows 11 Home digital license for this device running Windows 11 Pro. To activate using this digital license, you need to install Windows 11 Home." Please tell me if I have to enter license key? All I see at my laptop is a product key with so many "X" and the last 5 characters😅
If you downgrade to home it should recognize the digital license for your laptop and activate.
Hey man you probably wont see this but would it completely erase all my data? I'm saying apps, settings, programs, and personal files?
No this is a downgrade so it should retain all of the above. Always do a full backup beforehand though just in case something goes wrong. that way you can recover it.
Thanks a lot
it only allows me to reinstall without keeping anything, can I change that ?
yes, make sure your installing the same language and edition that was originally installed on your PC.
Sorry, Pls help! Doesn't work on my pc.
It said: The PC must support Secure Boot. 😢
It sounds like Windows 11 was installed on an unsupported system via a workaround. I have been told that newer versions of Windows 11 will no longer work for this. Please see the system reqs for Windows 11. Sorry I can't be of more help on this.
support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-system-requirements-86c11283-ea52-4782-9efd-7674389a7ba3
and wn 11 pro to win 11 home single lenguaje 😢😢😢
Hello there TEK411, do you happen to know how to do this for the new 23H2 on unsupported Hardware using the keep everything option?
when i try this method on 23H2 11 Pro the only option is to keep nothing.
Is windows installed on C:\Windows? Also, make sure your installing the same edition and language. Otherwise there is not option to keep your existing file/apps.
Is it different if I want to downgrade it to Home Single Language?
Yes, please take a look at the video description for the registry values to use for home SL.
Can you you help... I was part of W10 (Pro) DEV channel when W11 was released in lots of versions. BUT my PC doesn't meet W11 spec's. I was only allowed it as part of the DEV channel. On October 10 2023 "Pro" support ended meaning i need to roll back to "Home" but i cant as my PC doesn't met W11 spec's. Do you have any ideas.... Ideally I want to stay with W11... Thanks.
I have another video on installing Windows 11 on an unsupported system. It might be best in your case though to do a fresh install.