Great post.
I did a search at Gamers-Outlet and found Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC (I assume it comes with the key) singly for $23.19. Is that a pretty typical cost these days, from a reputable seller?
You should also search for a discount code... they always have something that works for 10% off and sometimes more. For the three that I purchased in the last couple of days I used SoftChat10 . The four that I purchased before that I used a different code that probably still works... the SoftChat10 just came up first on a ChatGPT search.
I believe that the price is not as cheap as some others are advertising, but mot ot the advertised prices are for the LTSC non IoT license which is only good for a couple more years. Gamers Outlet sells that one for about $16. I have been using Gamers-Outlet for quite a while and trust them more than many of the others, for simplicity they include a download location for the ISO. They are fairly easy to find, but some have hashes that do not end up matching the genuine Microsoft files.
I believe that if you modify the registry values given in the video link and not the ones that I provided... you will end up with a non IoT license regardless of the version that you purchased. If you do a clean install with the IoT version you may have to add more packages than with the non-IoT packages later. I cannot remember what all the extra packages were that I installed with the first three installations. I was using a PowerShell script to add them where you pick the packages by checking boxes.
I should mention that the first ISO that I downloaded came from a questionable source, and the hash did not match the genuine Microsoft file. I installed it on a Windows-To-Go NVME in an external enclosure. After I installed it I noticed that it was already activated... it said from the serial number on my machine. The machine was a surplus business computer that came with Windows 10 Pro. So I assumed that this was correct, but when I made another installation from a file that matched the Hash for the original Microsoft file it was not showing that it was activated on the activation page. The first file had been modified in some way so I did not trust the installation and decided against using it. YOu can use any of the Hash Checker programs available in the Microsoft Store to verify.
Here is a has list for the ISO file
en-us_windows_10_iot_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_257ad90f.iso
that you should be using:
File list :: Operating Systems :: Windows 10, version 21H2 [19044.1288] (Updated October 2021) ::
English :: en-us_windows_10_iot_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_257ad90f.iso
File: en-us_windows_10_iot_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_257ad90f.iso
Family: Operating Systems
Version: Windows 10, version 21H2 [19044.1288] (Updated October 2021)
Language: English - (EN)
CRC-32: 188c9d0d
MD5: 2463b19beac328290e6a8adcedb7533a
SHA-1: 76c3c10e38307d29fd8b4748522ed144dba35829
SHA-256: a0334f31ea7a3e6932b9ad7206608248f0bd40698bfb8fc65f14fc5e4976c160
SHA-512: 640942d93daf8cd183d06e35d5d753a4b93c952c3196c3e3fa7876295b39d8bfef5df8ef2a3b420b5247905fe396606f94ccf093982ee999e503d09e69850143
SHA3-256: 33bacaa70b78abcf4969fa0f6219a5cad7dd4d49c9b975ddadc8b15658d17d48
SHA3-512: 03e3a8e34a79363235aaf91333cb3afa4927feb0b1f1cf212e6cf4a70c54cbe7ab367fafb6143e6057dac00e407c1b661cb0e2511f7eadb4562c49d0ee606a4e
Size: 4.518 GB (4851668992 bytes)