Activate Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 Pro for Free
NOTE
If you see the Windows keyboard button in this guide; and you can't find it on your keyboard, you likely have/had Windows 10 which has the button . If you can't find that one, you likely have a PC that has been upgraded to Windows 8/8.1/10/11 from Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP and other ones. If you have one of those, refer the Windows key button to as yours. A list of them is below:
This doesn't say that your PC currently runs an older version of Windows. It is just the logo from the Windows version it came with. Your PC can always be upgraded to a newer version of Windows if it runs 64-bit and has a good CPU and GPU.
There are so many reasons why you want to upgrade! A few famous features which you provide of:
Create a restore point to make sure you can roll back if something doesn't work, or anything goes wrong. You can find a tool to easily do this below.
The Restore Point Tool is a good tool using Batch to create a Windows restore point automatically so that you can rollback to your previous Windows edition. If needed, you can later on restore to this point to make everything working again.
Backup the activation key you are currently using. This is to make sure that if the process doesn't work, you can reinstall Windows/change the edition and enter your current key, so that you can access everything again. This only applies when:
Third is for users with PERMANENT activation. This requires you to have a Microsoft account connected with Windows. Find it by clicking here. The first and second methods are NOT PERMANENT.
People which already have Pro, but not activated, can skip to this step.
Your Windows license will expire soon
or Something That way. What Do I Do?And now type in cmd.exe in the box.
It should now look as something like this:
Now press the 3 keys Ctrl
+ Shift
+ Enter
.
Now you should have something like this:
Now, click on Yes
.
Now you have something like this:
slmgr.vbs /upk
OK
.slmgr.vbs /cpky
OK
againslmgr.vbs /ckms
OK
when you get a messageNow we are going to check whether your edition has support for upgrading to the Pro edition.
DISM /online /Get-TargetEditions
Professional
in the list, then you can upgrade your Windows edition to Pro for free!Now, copy and paste this complete command:
sc config LicenseManager start= auto & net start LicenseManager
sc config wuauserv start= auto & net start wuauserv
changepk.exe /productkey VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T
exit
It will run an installer and you will see an message: % complete
Now wait until it's 100% and then you get an error (This is normal, this needs to happen)
When you get the error, just click Exit
and then reboot your pc
You will now see a message that he is running updates and is installing features, just wait until its done and check info
in settings, You will see that Windows 10/11 Pro is installed! (May show Windows Enterprise, but will be Windows Pro!!).
But we are not done yet, You will see that it isn't activated and that you can't change some settings, now we are going to fix that!
Now we are going to activate Windows Pro for free. Choose one of the methods below. The third method is recommended, as this will activate it permanently. This requires you to have a Microsoft account associated with your device and make sure you run Windows 10 or Windows 11. The third method will not work on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
R
slmgr /ipk W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX
slmgr /skms kms8.msguides.com
slmgr /ato
Note: This does not always work. When running slmgr /ato
it does not always work, but keep trying. When it still doesn't work then, try one of the other methods below. If it was successful, you now have Windows 10/11 Pro and it activated! You can check settings to see it.
There's another method with a batch file.
Click Save
(As) to save it. Now we need to open Windows Explorer. First, press the keyboard keys + R
.explorer.exe
in the box and click Enter
on your keyboard or click OK
.Downloads
, or go to the directory where you saved the downloaded batch file. Now you are here (or on a different place):Run As Administrator
. It will ask for UAC permissions. Click Yes
now. Now a console windows will open. Wait until it says <product activation succesfull>
. Now you activated Windows Pro for free! It also asks if you wanna see someone's blog. Press Y
if you want to and N
if you don't want to see.Note: This method requires you to have a Microsoft account connected! This is the method most people may use as this one activates it PERMANENT. If the below steps aren't working, try to download the batch file manually (.cmd and .bat are both the same) from here by opening the link and pressing Ctrl+S to save the file. After that run the .cmd file manually as administrator and you're already at final step, 7!
R
to open the Run menu.Ctrl
+ Shift
+ Enter
.Enter
: irm https://get.activated.win | iex
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