How to Downgrade Windows 11 Pro to Windows 11 Home
Downgrade from Windows 11 Pro to Windows 11 Home
You may need or want to downgrade from the Windows 11 Pro, Education, or Enterprise edition to the Windows 11 Home edition.
However, a direct downgrade from Windows 11 Pro, Education, or Enterprise to Windows 11 Home is not supported, and would normally require a clean install of Winows 11 Home and the loss of all your data.
This blog will show you how to downgrade from the Windows 11 Pro, Education, or Enterprise edition to the Windows 11 Home edition without any data loss.
Here's How to Downgrade Windows 11 Pro to Windows 11 Home
- 1 Please download this REG file below first
https://www.adrive.com/public/vz7mgs/Downgrade_to_Windows11-Home.reg
(contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]
"EditionID"="Core"
"ProductName"="Windows 11 Home"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]
"EditionID"="Core"
"ProductName"="Windows 11 Home"
- 2 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
- 3 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
- 4 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
- 5 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
- 6 Perform a repair install of Windows 11 with a Windows 11 ISO, Windows 11 USB, or Media Creation Tool, you can download the tool on https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11
- 7 When the repair install has finished, you will now be downgraded to the Windows 11 Home edition without losing anything.
- 8 If your Windows 11 Home is not currently activated by a digital license, then you will need to Change product key to a Windows 11 Home key to activate.
Comments
Post a Comment