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Way to go from Windows 10 Home to Windows 7 Pro 1
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rclarke250
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Yes, 10 Pro, comes with downgrade rights to 8.1 Pro and 7 Pro. Link
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OK, that's good if the route to get to 10 Pro doesn't matter. How about media? I have Windows 7 Pro OEM media, and I have used it to downgrade 10 Pro to 7 Pro in the past, but it worked without a product code, i presume because the 10 Pro product key was embedded in the bios. Will that be an issue when I install 7 Pro on this computer that shipped with 10 Home and was upgraded to 10 Pro?
rclarke250
Technical User
Never tried it, but I would think that you would take the new 25 character key and use that to downgrade once 10 pro was activated for the product.
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It wasnt completely straightforward; when you upgrade 10 Home to Pro from the Windows store, you do not get a product key. But you do get support from Microsoft. They pointed me to a site to download the media. That site asked for a Windows 7 Pro key, which I entered, didn't work, but support assisted with that, and also gave me a Windows 10 Pro product key to use in the future for this machine. So the "10 Home" up to "10 Pro" down to "7 Pro" route worked. Thank you rclarke250.
rclarke250
Technical User
Glad it worked, and now we know how to do it since you went through the process and reported back.
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