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Activate Windows 11 Pro free

An guide how to activate Windows 11 Pro for free

Why?

Because you will get some more features like an Bitlocker and host your device as an External Desktop which can be accessed through the internet

Am i also able to switch from any other edition to Pro?

The answer is yes! You can switch from almost any edition to Pro completely for free!

Note for users with unactivated Pro edition

People which already have Pro, but not activated, can skip to this step.

Getting started

What you first need to do is open CMD (Command Prompt) as Administrator using this keyboard key:

Windows-logo key+ R

And now type in "cmd.exe" in the box

It should now look as something like this:

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Now press this keys on your keyboard:

ctrl+shift+enter

Now you have something like this:

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Now, click on "yes"

Now you have something like this:

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The commands

Now, type the following command: slmgr.vbs /upk Now it will give an message, click on OK

And now this command: slmgr.vbs /cpky It will give an message once again, and click on OK again

And now type this command: slmgr.vbs /ckms Once again click on OK when you get an message

Edition upgradable check command

Now we are gonna check of your edition is supported to upgrade to Pro, run the following command to check this: DISM /online /Get-TargetEditions If you see "Professional" in the list, then you can upgrade your Windows edition to Pro for free!

Running Windows Pro installer

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 it's not weird that you will get an error

When you get the error, just click Exit and then reboot your pc.

You will now see an 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 11 Pro is installed!

But we are not done, You will see that it isn't activated and that you can't change some settings, now we are gonna fix that!

Activating Windows Pro

Now we are gonna run some other commands to activate Windows 11 Pro

Press these keyboard keys once again:

Windows-logo key+R

It looks like this again:

Run Dialog With cmd.exe Text In It

Press ctrl+shift+enter

You will get an message, just click on Yes

Now you will get an Command Prompt.

Type the following commands one for one to activate:

slmgr /ipk W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX

slmgr /skms kms8.msguides.com

slmgr /ato

Now you have Windows 11 Pro and it activated! You can check settings to see it.

Video Tutorial

There is also an video tutorial to make it easy to follow. Click on the image below to see the video tutorial on YouTube.

Video Tutorial

Last Words

I hope you enjoy it! If you have any further questions, you can email me at "Minionguyjpro@gmail.com" or comment on this guide.

@brancovail49
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It upgradeable key, only if you need upgrade from home to pro, if you want key for activaiton, Bought my key from partner microsoft https://hypestkey.com/product/windows-11-pro/, they also giv me coupon code hypfine10

That working for me thanks

But i bought here https://www.g2g.com/hypestkey/ , because they have 100% reviews

Working bro, thanks you!

@GiapKun
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GiapKun commented Jun 24, 2024

I appreciate it, but I wonder I just reinstalled Windows 11, will this help me use it for free forever?

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kian674 commented Jun 26, 2024

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@MaryamElGohary
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I really want to thank you as the third method worked for me
can you tell me how to activate Microsoft office ?

@xolt10
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xolt10 commented Jun 27, 2024

the last command did not work for me could i get some feedback? im talking about slmgr /ato

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xolt10 commented Jun 27, 2024

the last command did not work for me could i get some feedback? im talking about slmgr /ato

i succussfully managed to activate pro after following the guide once again i probably either missed a step or did something incorrectly

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BlackOrchard commented Jun 27, 2024

Installation worked fine, but Windows update don't work anymore. Says Error 0x8000ffff

Edit: seems to be working after reboot

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