MSDN Subscribers: Install Windows 10 S From an ISO RELATED: Microsoft has released ISO files of Windows 10 S, but only (because Windows 10 S is meant for “education”, even though Microsoft is inexplicably shipping it on a flagship laptop). If you have an MSDN subscription, you can download Windows 10 S from Microsoft. The ISO files can be used to or, just like you’d install any other version of Windows. Most people don’t have MSDN subscriptions, though, so hopefully Microsoft will make Windows 10 S ISO files more broadly available in the future. However, there is an alternative for Windows 10 users—see the last section of this article. Surface Laptop Users: Reinstall Windows 10 S from a Recovery Image If you have a Surface Laptop that shipped with Windows 10 S and you want to reinstall its Windows 10 S operating system, you can download a recovery image for your Surface device from.
Just sign in with the Microsoft account your Surface Laptop is registered to or enter its serial number. You’ll get a recovery image you can use to reinstall Windows 10 S on this device. Follow the instructions in Step 3 on the Surface recovery page. You’ll be asked to on an existing Windows PC and then copy the files from the recovery image.zip file to the USB recovery drive you created.
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Everyone Else: Convert a Windows 10 PC to Windows 10 S Microsoft has released a Windows 10 S installer implemented as an.exe file. You can run this on, Education, or Enterprise to convert your existing Windows 10 installation to Windows 10 S. This won’t work on Windows 10 Home, which makes some sense. Windows 10 S is actually based on Windows 10 Professional, according to Microsoft. You could use this to install Windows 10 S in a roundabout way. First, install Windows 10 Professional in a virtual machine or on a PC. Second, run the tool to convert your Windows 10 installation into a Windows 10 S one.
(And, so anyone can do this to set up a quick and dirty virtual machine to test Windows 10 S.) RELATED: If you’re installing Windows 10 S on a PC, be aware that you won’t be able to run non-Store applications afterwards, some features may not work, and that some of your personal files will be deleted during the installation process. We recommend not installing Windows 10 S on your primary PC. If you are installing Windows 10 S on an important PC, be sure to and ahead of time, just in case. When you’re ready, visit Microsoft’s website. Launch it and click through the wizard. It will download and install Windows 10 S on your PC for you.
When the download is complete, the tool will restart your PC and finish the process. You’ll be able to use Windows 10 S with all its limitations after the installation completes.
All your desktop applications will be removed. You’ll only be able to install applications from the Store, and some hardware devices won’t work if they require drivers that aren’t available through Microsoft. You can test whether your peripherals work on Windows 10 S, whether work properly, or just see how you can live with Windows 10 S’s limitations. If you decide you want to ditch Windows 10 S and, you can do so. This only works within the first 10 days, and only if you haven’t deleted your and folders. To do so, head to Settings Update & security Recovery. Click the “Get started” button under Go back to the previous version of Windows 10.
If you don’t see that option here, it’s either been over ten days or you deleted the windows.old or $windows.bt folders. If this option isn’t available, you may need to use the Settings Update & security Recovery Reset this PC Get Started Restore factory settings option,.
RECOMMENDED: PC users who upgraded from Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, Windows 8/8.1 Pro and Windows 8.1 Pro for Student have received Windows 10 Pro edition during the free upgrade offer which expired a few weeks ago. The Windows 10 Pro edition offers a couple of features in addition to all the features that you get in the Home edition. Domain join, Group Policy Management, BitLocker, Remote Desktop, and Device Guard are some of the features that are not part of Windows 10 Home edition. If you are running Windows 10 Pro edition, you might want to download and keep a bootable copy of Windows 10 Pro so that you can use it reinstall the operating system whenever you want to do so.
The official Windows Media Creation Tool can be used to download the latest version of Windows 10. If you don’t want to use the Media Creation Tool, you can follow our download Windows 10 ISO without Media Creation Tool workaround to. Can I download Windows 10 Pro ISO from Microsoft? Before we tell you how to prepare Windows 10 Pro ISO, it’s important to note that Microsoft doesn’t offer Windows 10 Pro as a separate ISO.
Instead, it offers a single ISO image containing both Home and Pro editions of Windows 10. But there is a way to make the ISO or bootable media automatically install only Windows 10 Pro edition. While installing or reinstalling, the setup of Windows 10 automatically installs the right edition based on the key found in the BIOS or your previous Windows installation. If it doesn’t get any clue, it will ask you to select between Home and Professional.
Add ei.cfg file to automatically install Pro edition of Windows 10 But if you would like to force the setup file to always install Windows 10 Pro edition automatically, you need to add a small file called ei.cfg to the bootable media. The ei.cfg does nothing but forces the setup file to automatically install Windows 10 Pro irrespective of the license key found on your PC. Here is how to add the ei.cfg to the bootable media to make it install Windows 10 Pro edition only.
Making Windows 10 Pro bootable media Step 1: and run the same on any Windows 10 PC. If you don’t want to use the Media Creation Tool or experience an issue with that tool, please refer to our how to download Windows 10 ISO without Media Creation Tool guide. Step 2: On the license agreement page, click the Accept button to continue. Step 3: Next, select Create installation media option and then click Next. Note that you need to select this option even if you are downloading the ISO for your current PC (the option says for another PC). Step 4: Now, uncheck Use the recommended options for this PC option. Select your language, select the edition as Windows 10 (yes, to download Windows 10 Pro also), and select the architecture as 64- bit or 32-bit (check if you are running 32-bit or 64-bit).
If you are not sure, you can select Both. Click the Next button to begin downloading the latest version of. Step 5: Select the ISO file option. Click the Next button. Step 6: Select a location to save the ISO file, type a name for the ISO, and then click Save button begin the download. It might take a few minutes to hours to complete the download.
Step 7: Once the ISO is downloaded, prepare the using or any other program that you would use usually. Step 8: Now, copy and paste the following code in the Notepad program, click the File menu, click Save as, select location as the desktop, enter the file name as ei.cfg (without including.txt) and then click the Save button. It’s important to make sure that you are creating ei.cfg and NOT ei.cfg.txt file. EditionID Professional Channel Retail Step 9: Finally, copy and paste this ei.cfg file to the root of the Sources folder in the bootable media of Windows 10. That is, open up the bootable media, open up the Sources folder, and then paste the ei.cfg there.
Step 10: You can now use the bootable media to automatically install Windows 10 Pro edition on any PC. Adding ei.cfg file Windows 10 ISO Step 1: Extract the Windows 10 ISO image using 7-Zip or any other utility. Extract the content to a folder. Step 2: Create the ei.cfg file by following the directions in Step 8 of the above method. Step 3: Copy and paste the ei.cfg file to the root of the Sources folder located in the folder containing all extracted files from the ISO. Be sure to save the ei.cfg file in the root of the Sources folder. Step 4: Finally, refer to our how to guide to prepare the bootable Windows 10 Pro ISO.