Hello Yousha.
Which Windows 11 edition was your laptop bundled with? Home or Pro?
You cannot use a Windows 11 Home key to activate a Windows 11 Pro license.
Bye.
Moving from Windows 11 Home to Pro requires another key?
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Yousha Ahmed
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Hello! I had windows 11 pro bought a key online to activate it. After a few month my system was running slow so I clean installed it uses the setup file from the source folder. My laptop orgianllt came with windows 11 home. After installation I found Out windows 11 home was installed. Now I already paid alot for the pro activation key and sincw it was old I lost the key also. So how can I move to windows 11 pro and will havw to buy another key please help me.
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Luigi Bruno 42,471 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2024-07-11T18:36:08.75+00:00
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Kapil Arya 37,211 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2024-07-14T12:34:04.9533333+00:00 If you've bought Pro upgrade from Microsoft Store, and you're on same device for which upgrade was bought, simply connect to web and Pro edition should be activated automatically.
If you bought retail key, you can try to retrieve it from your orders/email from where you bought it.