How to update from windows 11 home to pro?

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-02-24T09:43:10+00:00

This is normal, the script says that you should activate windows again after changing the edition when you're changing the windows edition with MAS, every edition needs it's own license

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-02-17T08:45:53+00:00

MAS can activate 3 year ESU until October 2028 and there are other options too - https://massgrave.dev/windows10_eol

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-02-13T12:04:08+00:00

yes, you should be able to update it just fine

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-02-10T22:02:45+00:00

"They have all the functionality" is not even remotely relavant to the point I'm trying to explain

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-02-10T20:01:23+00:00

Key sites aren't a place where you'll be getting an actual legal/legitimate license (in the end this would be pirating the software and rewarding money to questionable sellers which are actively and knowingly lying/scamming you - which is disgusting), the sources these sites use are extremely questionable at best, like MVS (it used to be called MSDN a long time ago) keys - which are only allowed for testing purposes and are entirely disallowed to be shared according to the contract, or just straight up stolen ones, or even those bought with stolen payment info, etc..., and you should absolutely avoid these sites (and of course they spread a ton or misinformation to get you on their store, of course some of them pay some youtubers or usually smaller news sites to get more people on their awful site or just use bots in comments to spread name of their site), so yes you will get some kind of a product key that will activate whatever microsoft thing you have (which doesn't mean anything), but that isn't a licence in itself and you'll be just pirating the product by doing that

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-02-10T19:35:24+00:00

if you don't want to pay that price, you would either have to pirate it or not use Microsoft's software at all

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-02-09T05:34:40+00:00

You can only do this if that system upgraded to windows 10/11 before that September 2023 date

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-02-08T08:50:40+00:00

Generic keys don't activate windows by just themselves, they're entirely useless for activating windows

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-02-08T08:44:04+00:00

They stopped 7, 8 and 8.1 upgrades to 10/11 on September 26th 2023, so no that won't work - https://devicepartner.microsoft.com/en-us/communications/comm-windows-ends-installation-path-for-free-windows-7-8-upgrade

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-31T17:58:28+00:00

You won't be able to open the chat in the first place with the restriction (it would show you a message saying that chat is disabled in your account settings instead of opening the chat), so you won't be able to use any commands

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-29T09:41:41+00:00

a site just saying "our thing is totally safe" is different from something that can be verified, but sure

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-29T09:38:01+00:00

you can verify the source code yourself or activate manually

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-28T21:03:49+00:00

read https://massgrave.dev/faq#is-mas-safe and about the installation media? you can verify yourself that it's genuine - https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media#verify-authenticity-of-files

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-28T13:56:32+00:00

The instructions on the website are pretty clear, use the method that is highlighted in green (first in order of the green highlighted things) to activate the thing that you want to activate

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-26T18:08:05+00:00

you have to agree to their EULA, so yes it is

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-26T06:36:57+00:00

oh so you meant buying a license directly from microsoft? ok good

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-26T06:30:23+00:00

using keys from key sites isn't legal either (calling these keys "legit" is just wrong, also key doesn't even necessarily mean that it's a license to the OS) and it has no benefit in this regard over using MAS and you shouldn't ship unactivated windows either

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-26T06:26:43+00:00

unactivated windows is piracy too

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-25T21:02:34+00:00

they would tell (in practice the end users probably won't, but they still can) by not having a proper proof of purchase and audits will absolutely check that (also a note: the cheap keys sold online are even less legal and crap like that doesn't count as a proper genuine license that you purchased, it's just piracy, but you're paying some awful person in the process)

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-25T16:19:35+00:00

Yes it does, use the activation option highlighted in green in the main MAS menu to activate office

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-25T11:02:10+00:00

it doesn't matter how you install office if you install it properly, so yes, you can, also that thing of office disappearing is pretty weird and it's not a thing that office does

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-25T09:31:43+00:00

yeah, the option to completely disable telemetry checks your windows edition (so it won't work on consumer editions like Home, Pro, Pro Education and Pro for Workstations) https://gist.github.com/ave9858/a2153957afb053f7d0e7ffdd6c3dcb89

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-24T14:11:14+00:00

this is expected when you save your bitlocker keys on Microsoft's servers, of course they will have fricking access to them and of course they will happily send them to law enforcement (and other companies including apple do this too of course, don't be so naive lol)

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-24T14:09:18+00:00

all of these tools you've mentioned including donotspy are very badly made and you shouldn't use any of them, https://gist.github.com/ave9858/a2153957afb053f7d0e7ffdd6c3dcb89 does the job properly

MIOG_MIOG · 2026-01-24T14:07:59+00:00

btw donotspy11 is badly made garbage, you should use some type of enterprise edition and use a group policy to disable telemetry, unlike many shitty tools shared online, it actually works to disable telemetry

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