How to Downgrade Windows 11 Pro to Windows 11 Home without reinstall

How to Downgrade Windows 11

Pro to Windows 11 Home without reinstall

This article is for someone who wants or needs to downgrade from the Windows 11 Pro, Pro Education, Education, or Enterprise edition to the Windows 11 Home edition.

However, as we all know, A direct downgrade is not supported, and it would normally require a clean install of Windows 11 Home, but it will result in losing all your programs, and settings and all files and data in C Drive!

This article will show you how to downgrade from Windows 11 Pro, Pro Education, Education, or Enterprise to Windows 11 Home without losing anything.

1. First, please make sure you've signed in Windows 11 Pro as an administrator.

2. Create a txt document then change the file extension .txt to .reg file, then input these codes:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

"CompositionEditionID"="Core"

"EditionID"="Core"

"ProductName"="Windows 11 Home"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\ CurrentVersion]

"CompositionEditionID"="Core"

"EditionID"="Core"

"ProductName"="Windows 11 Home"

3. Double click on the .reg file to start to merge the registry.

4. Please select "Yes","Yes","Ok" to approve and complete the merge.

5. There is no use for the .reg file any more， you can delete it .

6. Perform a repair install of Windows 11 :

Step One: Download Windows 11 ISO file, then open the ISO file, and double click "Setup"

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

Step Two: Follow the steps until "ready to install", Click on "Change what to keep", please choose "keep personal file and apps", then click "Next" and then click "Install"

7. When the repair install has finished, you will now be downgraded to the Windows 11 Home edition without losing anything. If your Windows 11 Home is not activated by a digital license before, then you will need to Change product key to a valid Windows 11 Home key to activate. and you can get the Retail Windows 11 Home Key from the legit reseller keying.com for a better price