I have a laptop at work that originally had Windows 7 Home Premium on it. We have a tech that comes in a few times a week to do some of our support work, and we asked him to upgrade the laptop to Windows 7 Professional.
Before he left he told us the upgrade didn't work and that we'd have to order a disk. Upon checking the computer it seemed he had upgraded to Windows Professional 7 N.
It had not previously been Home Premium N, so I'm not exactly sure how he managed to upgrade it to an N edition.
I do not understand why he didn't run the Any Time Upgrade, but that is now irrelevant.
How can I change Professional N to regular Professional? I would like to avoid having to restore it back to Home if possible.
Best Answer
According to Wikipedia, The N-Editions are exactly the same as the standard editions, except they are lacking Windows Media Player. You should be able to download and install Windows Media Player and essentially have a full Professional version of Windows 7. Windows will still report itself as Windows 7 Professional N, but you will have all of the same features as Windows 7 Professional.
Further information on what was removed from Windows XP when the original N editions were released can be found at: