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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do you have an IT department? Go explain to them how you fucked up and used a Windows key from a pirate website on your work laptop and risked the company's reputation and a possible lawsuit from a tech giant and how you wish to unfuck things before it's too late or lose your job.

Fucking hell man. That was a dumb move. I hope you learn a lesson from this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I guess their company might have a BYOD policy... Damn I hope that's the case.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

That was a dumb move to force an upgrade on a work laptop. There I said it and I feel better.

Were you able to set the Hwid back to Windoes 10 pro?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Why on earth would you fuck with a work laptop. You do not own that and could very easily lose your job over it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

My dude, never mess with work equipment. Own up to your mistakes with the IT department, and they can fix it on their end.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Put Linux on it and pretend it's never happened /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I hope your IT department has a sense of humor lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Does your work IT department not manage their laptops? Are they not going to come asking why your system is unmanageable?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Best guess I have is to install home, run MAS again to activate a pro key, upgrade to pro inside windows.

Probably a better way, but that one should work. I was able to upgrade from home to pro this way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Use the same script to unlock Pro. Windows is automatically picking Home because it was most recently activated that way. You could also add a file onto the USB you used to install Windows with to force to show you a selection menu of various Windows variations (ie Home, Pro, Education, etc) and then pick Pro there. The preinstalled key should still be on the machine.