"Reprint" How to upgrade from win8/8.1 Chinese (Core edition) to win8/8.1 Pro Edition

Recently helped many students from the basic version of win8/8.1-Chinese version (core version) to the professional version, after consulting, the most important reason for upgrading the system is the Chinese version (Core edition) of the functional limitations, because the basic version castrated a lot of common functions, such as Group Policy, Computer Management, Local Users and group management, etc. It is inconvenient to use, in view of the number of students who want to upgrade the system version, I feel it is necessary to write a detailed picture of the tutorial out for everyone to refer to, let us look at the steps together.

Before upgrading, first determine what your system version is, such as the Chinese version, or the core version, to note that the Chinese version is also a variant of the core version, its real name is Corecountryspecific version. So how can you tell what version of your system is?

Method One, we right-click "This Computer"-Properties, open the system properties can see the system version, if the display is windows8/8.1 Chinese version, then is the corecountryspecific version, which is generally pre-installed system will be so displayed. If the Windows 8/8.1 is displayed, then the core version, the core version of the no suffix.

Method two, direct download microkms Dragon version (click to download), the above will show your system version.

Next can proceed to upgrade, we right-click "This Computer" property, open, click "Get More Windows Features", generally follow the prompts to enter the corresponding key can be upgraded by steps, it is important to note that some will be prompted "unable to add features to this version of Windows," the solution to see the end of the text.

This step selects "I have purchased a product key-".

In this step enter the Professional edition of the retail key, if you are upgrading to WIN8 Professional Edition, enter 8GDW2-NHD3Y-C79G4-B82C4-6Q4DH,

If you are upgrading to win8.1 Pro, enter 29nqy-3tdj2-cpxxd-chdmy-cwd2y.

This step check "I accept the License terms" and click "Add Features".

This is the beginning of the system upgrade, keep this process do not shut down, this process may be a little long, waiting for him to upgrade will automatically restart, after restarting, the system is inactive, and then download the microkms Dragon version (click to download) a button activation on it.

Workaround for the "Unable to add features to this version of Windows" appears:

In general, this is because of the reason for using KMS activation, to solve this problem, before the upgrade, the exchange of a retail key to it.

Press the WIN+X key combination, then click "Command Prompt (Administrator)", be sure to select a command prompt with an administrator, and then enter the following replacement key command:

win8.1 Chinese version: SLMGR-IPK XYNVP-TW798-F8893-7B89K-8QHDK

win8.1 Core Edition: Slmgr-ipk 334NH-RXG76-64THK-C7CKG-D3VPT

Win8 Chinese version: SLMGR-IPK XYNVP-TW798-F8893-7B89K-8QHDK

Win8 Core Edition: Slmgr-ipk H6QKM-7PN4V-7PP8X-7KHRJ-7FPKQ

After entering the above command enter, you will be prompted to enter the key successfully, then, then restart the steps in this article can be normal upgrade.

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"Reprint" How to upgrade from win8/8.1 Chinese (Core edition) to win8/8.1 Pro Edition