Windows 7 Home Upgrade To Pro
01.09.2019
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The Pro upgrade accepts product keys from older business (Pro/Ultimate) versions of Windows. If you don't have a Pro product key and you want to buy one, you can click Go to the Store and purchase.
Upgrade Windows 7 Home To Professional Without Reinstalling
Buying Anytime Upgrade
Type Anytime Upgrade in the Search programs and files box in the Start menu and click on the Windows Anytime Upgrade icon. From there, you can buy an Anytime Upgrade to Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate. Then you can enter your Anytime Upgrade product key and perform a simple upgrade to Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate. All programs and files will stay on the computer, no disk is needed and it takes about 10 minutes.
If you are in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US you can use Anytime Upgrade. If not you will need to buy the version of Windows 7 you want.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/windows-anytime-upgrade
Anytime Upgrade Using An Already Purchased Retail Pro/Ultimate Key
In Windows 7 Home Premium, type Anytime Upgrade in the Search programs and files box in the Start menu and click on the Windows Anytime Upgrade icon. From there, you can enter your retail (Full or Upgrade) Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate product key and perform a simple upgrade. All programs and files will stay on the computer, no disk is needed and it takes about 10 minutes.
Have Questions About Installing Windows 7?
FAQ - Common Windows 7 Installation Questions & Answers
Type Anytime Upgrade in the Search programs and files box in the Start menu and click on the Windows Anytime Upgrade icon. From there, you can buy an Anytime Upgrade to Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate. Then you can enter your Anytime Upgrade product key and perform a simple upgrade to Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate. All programs and files will stay on the computer, no disk is needed and it takes about 10 minutes.
If you are in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US you can use Anytime Upgrade. If not you will need to buy the version of Windows 7 you want.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/windows-anytime-upgrade
Anytime Upgrade Using An Already Purchased Retail Pro/Ultimate Key
In Windows 7 Home Premium, type Anytime Upgrade in the Search programs and files box in the Start menu and click on the Windows Anytime Upgrade icon. From there, you can enter your retail (Full or Upgrade) Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate product key and perform a simple upgrade. All programs and files will stay on the computer, no disk is needed and it takes about 10 minutes.
Have Questions About Installing Windows 7?
FAQ - Common Windows 7 Installation Questions & Answers
Windows 7 Home To Pro Upgrade Cost
I believe the Pro key used in Anytime Upgrade will completely replace the HP activation. When you then install HP on the netbook, you will be referred to an Activation robocall which updates the hardware signature associated with that Product Key. A recording will ask you if you only have that product key on one computer. When you answer correctly, it will update the hardware signature in MS activation computers so that any other machine's use of that key will be deactivated upon connection to the internet.
Only if the underlying use of HP as the launching platform for the Pro Anytime upgrade still somehow maintains HP activation would this deactivate your Pro install. This is fairly new ground for us here as we only confirmed in recent months that retail keys work in Anytime and related issues have not been completely sorted.
In the worst case where the HP key maintains activation as the base of your Pro install, you might have to do the workaround which allows an in-place Upgrade between versions of Win7, to avoid having to do a clean install of Pro. This definitely resets activation and says bye-bye to HP.
Once you have it set up running as you like, make a Win7 backup image stored externally so you can reimage the HD or a replacement instead of having to reinstall.
Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup
Only if the underlying use of HP as the launching platform for the Pro Anytime upgrade still somehow maintains HP activation would this deactivate your Pro install. This is fairly new ground for us here as we only confirmed in recent months that retail keys work in Anytime and related issues have not been completely sorted.
In the worst case where the HP key maintains activation as the base of your Pro install, you might have to do the workaround which allows an in-place Upgrade between versions of Win7, to avoid having to do a clean install of Pro. This definitely resets activation and says bye-bye to HP.
Once you have it set up running as you like, make a Win7 backup image stored externally so you can reimage the HD or a replacement instead of having to reinstall.
Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup