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Downgrading from Windows 7 Ultimate to Professional
Hello everyone!
I want to downgrade my Windows 7 Ultimate installation to Windows 7 Professional, because of some licensing reasons.
I have tried the method of changing the Regedit values from "Ultimate" to "Professional" as stated here:
Unfortunately, when I try to do a repair install, I get the "Windows 7 Ultimate cannot be upgraded to Windows 7 Professional" error message.
Since I have fiddled around with that and not gotten any results, here is what I want to do:
-Backup all of my programs and Windows User Settings to an external hard drive
-Backup the entire current registry
-Clean install of windows 7 pro
-Restore the entire registry
-Restore my backups
My questions are:
1.) Is this feasible? Won't there be problems because I am importing a windows registry from my old windows account?
2.) Is there another way of doing the downgrade form Ultimate to Professional?
Thank you all very much in advance for your help, I really appreciate it