Upgrade Windows 10 / 11 Evaluation Edition (Including LTSC) to Full

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Micrsoft Evaluation Center offers evaluation version for you to have a free trial to exploring technical stuff easily. But if you test an evaluation version of Windows 10 and decided to upgrade to the full version, you will face a stumbling block. The evaluation version offered is of the Enterprise edition but Microsoft doesn’t support any way to convert the evaluation version to a fully licensed version of Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 11 Enterprise edition!

How-to-Upgrade-Windows-10-Evaluation-to-Full-Version

In this blog post, I am going to show you a way to upgrade your Windwos 10 LTSC / Windows 11 evluation version to a Full version, without reinstallation, limitation, expiration, and watermark.
The steps also applys to other version’s Windows as well. New SKU file is same.

Download and Install Win10 LTSC Evaluation Version

For Windows 11 Developer Evaluation Version

VMWare

Hyper-V (Gen2)

VirtualBox

Parallels 

If you download ISO files from evaluation center, you can easily burn it to USB stick then install Windows OS using the USB.
Download Windows 10 ISO links:

You can use Rufus to burn download ISO  into your USB stick:

Boot your machine using this usb stick and follow regular steps to get this latest Windows 10 LTSC evaluation installed.

Unfortunately, it will be evaluation version and you won’t be able to change the product key to activate it just like you do for other version of Win10.  Even you try to change prodction license code, you wont be able to get the result you want.

Now lets get it upgraded to Full version so you do not have to reinstall everything from scratch.

Upgrade Steps

Note: because it is evaluation verison, DISM command for upgrading to full version wont work on Windows 10. We can use following special ways to get it upgraded. Basically we just need to replace the skus folder’s content using a special one.

Here are some steps you can do to change evaulation version to full version:

1. Press Win+R command

Then enter: C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\skus

You can use this command to check system version: wmic os get caption

 

C:\Users\netsec>wmic os get caption

Caption Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC Evaluation

 

Or you can use dism command: (run it in the administrator mode)

Right click on Terminal icon then select Run as administrator

Terminal

C:\Windows\system32>dism /online /get-currentedition

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844

Image Version: 10.0.19044.1288

Current edition is: Current Edition : EnterpriseSEval

The operation completed successfully.

 

2. Download a special file includes some new Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 SKU files:

  • new SKUs of Windows 10 Enterprise here

Again, this file is also able to apply into Win11.

 

3. unzip then copy all contents to  C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\skus

You might have existing EnterpriseEval folder. Edit properties and get administrators group full control permission so you can delete this folder.

After that, please copy following three folders into skus folder.

4.  After reboot system, open CMD command line window (Run as administrator) , then copy / paste following commands in it to run:

If you are in Terminal window, you might want to type CMD to get into Command Prompt window to run following commands.

There will be some path issue in Terminal window to run those commands.

cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /rilc
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /upk >nul 2>&1
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ckms >nul 2>&1
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /cpky >nul 2>&1
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk M7XTQ-FN8P6-TTKYV-9D4CC-J462D
sc config LicenseManager start= auto & net start LicenseManager
sc config wuauserv start= auto & net start wuauserv
clipup -v -o -altto c:\
echo

Some popular code:

  • M7XTQ-FN8P6-TTKYV-9D4CC-J462D is for Win 10 Enterprise LTSC
  • W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX is for Win 10 Pro / Edu / Home
  • W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX is for Win 11 pro
Notes: You might get an error to say :

‘error 0xc004e016 on a computer running microsoft windows non-core edition

run slui.exe 0x2a 0xc004e016 to display the error text’

Using following commands to fix this error from CMD (run as an administrator):

slmgr /upk

slmgr.vbs /cpky

slmgr /ckms

slmgr.vbs /ckms

slmgr /skms localhost

Here is the command output:

5.  Restart your computer then you will find out this upgrade process from Evaluation to Full version has been done.

Note: Above process applys to Windows 11 as well.

Results

After reboot, you will find the evulation word has been removed from system.

For Windows 10:

Notes: Updates your Windows system then put your KMS server in to activate it. You will need to go online to find out a public kms server ip to replace this example one, 192.168.2.8.

C:\Windows\system32>wmic os get caption

C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /skms 192.168.2.8
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /ipk M7XTQ-FN8P6-TTKYV-9D4CC-J462D
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /ato
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /xpr

Notes: DISM command might not work properly here.

C:\Windows\system32>dism /online /get-currentedition

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool

Version: 10.0.19041.844 Image Version: 10.0.19044.2486

Current edition is:

Error: 0x800f0805

DISM failed. No operation was performed.

For more information, review the log file.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log

C:\Windows\system32>


For Windows 11:

Win11 SKU: Download here

 

Here is the code for enabling all kinds of Win11 licensing:

cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /rilc

cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /upk >nul 2>&1

cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ckms >nul 2>&1

cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /cpky >nul 2>&1

cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk NRG8B-VKK3Q-CXVCJ-9G2XF-6Q84J

sc config LicenseManager start= auto & net start LicenseManager

sc config wuauserv start= auto & net start wuauserv

clipup -v -o -altto c:\

echo

Following is the step to activate license as Win11 Pro for Workstation:
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /ipk W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /skms 192.168.2.8
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /ato
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /xpr
You can download Windows 10, 11 full edition ISO installation files below:

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