After installing Windows 8 I tried to do a couple of things that I normally do to set up my computer.
I went to enable “Remote Desktop”… but there was no options. Hmm…
I wanted to make a change to the “Local Security Settings…”. Hmmm…
Both of these things were missing and I started to google bing for information on how to change a setting. And, lo and behold I found:
If you are troubleshooting why secpol.msc does not seem to exist in your copy of Windows 7, then the reason is probably that you have the Home Premium version; unfortunately you need to upgrade, or else try another machine that does have the Ultimate Edition.
- Secpol: Local Security Policy Editor
But I have Windows 8 Pro? But no… alas I dropped the ball and installed “Windows 8”. Full stop… and not “Windows 8 Pro”…
How do you tell? Simples…
Figure: View the Properties of “Computer”
Which will open the system information about your computer. This will tell you lots of things of use on bare metal, but as this is a Hyper-V box there is little of import. Except the edition of Windows…
Figure: Aww nuts… Windows 8 (only)
I did think that I needed to reinstall, but I thought that should at least give the “Add features” a try…
Figure: Get more features the easy way
You will get asked for a key for the new and higher edition of Windows 8 that you want to move to.
Figure: But I already have a nice MSDN key at the ready?
You will likely just have selected the wrong key from your MSDN and you can select “I already have a product key” and enter the new one.
Figure: Phew… Windows 8 Pro
Lets just check that we can indeed access the goods…
Figure: Why is this a Pro only feature?
I was quite happy not to have to reinstall, but you can choose what you want to do. My suggestion is to use a Pro key the first time round!
Did you install the wrong version of Windows?
How easy was it for you to fix it?
