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I have a Dell laptop with Windows 10 Home. I have also purchased Pro key.

From my experience, if I reinstall fresh, the USB doesn't ask me for a key at all, it just grabs the license information from SLP/SLIC/whatever else it uses (UEFI install).

Then, after a reinstall, I have to "upgrade" to Pro again by entering the key. Since the Pro license had been activated on my laptop before, it goes pretty smoothly, that's not the problem.

My question is if it's possible to (somehow) update SLIC information to the upgraded Pro key, so upon a fresh install, it will install Pro instead of Home edition.

Edit: As @Ramhound has explained in the comments, this may not be possible, but my intent was the opposite of the proposed possible duplicate: Prevent Windows 10 installer from using the preinstalled serial key without disabling UEFI

Instead of preventing the installer from using the preinstalled key, what I wanted to do was update the key in SLIC so that the Windows installer uses it and installs the correct edition of Windows without having to enter my key every single time I install it.

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