downgrade

Hello I downloaded win 10 2 years ago And ı loved It first year but now It feels boring And ı want to make my computer windows 8.How can i do it pleasr help me :(

Having been encouraged to upgrade to Fall Creators Update I experienced problems with windows freezing. Eventually, I decided to cut my losses and return to the old version of W10. Now I find I need a password to access Windows. I've tried several and believe one of them is correct but it tells...

Currently, I am running Windows 10 and I am unhappy with its performance. To cut to the chase I originally had Windows 8.1, and I was curious if I bought and installed a copy of Windows 7, would I run into any issues?

Hi, I am new to this forum, and need help with my workstation. I have an HP Z820 Workstation that came with Windows 7. I think it is set up with an SAS boot drive and 4x1TB in RAID10 array. At least that is what I think the setup is. I have it hooked up to a digital camera for a school...

So, I decided to downgrade from Windows 7 to XP Pro on my Acer Aspire 5736Z-4460 because it'd freeze up constantly while I was using it. XP doesn't have that problem. But when I switched to XP, I had to look for the wireless / Wi-Fi drivers for it. I tried every driver I could find and they'd...

Today i had to do an OS Factory default reset becaus of some issues i was having starting services needed to run a server i had for personal use, the reset worked but then it was too late to notice my mistake, this laptop had a Windows 8.1 rom as Factory and now i'm stuck with Windows 8.1...

hI, Can anyone guide me towards info on using win 7 instead of win 10, I recently bought an acer desktop which runs on win 10, I need to be able to use win 7 mainly because of software I need to use, only information I can find is when you want to revert back within a month of updating to 10...

Hello! On Sept 2015 I upgraded my 2-years-old Samsung laptop to W10, but after some issues (including BSoD), I downgraded to W8.1, thinking that would solve the problems. Since then, a KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR BSoD appears even several times a day (specially today). I saw the .dmp files using...

So I recently upgraded to win 10 from win 7 and my internet speed is really slow. I went from 8mbs to 0.7mbs. Cant watch streams and it takes a while to open any sites. Meanwhile on my laptop which is using win 8 the internet is fine on that, even when im connected to the internet on my win 10...

My computer crash when i play videogames and used the browser, this problem started 2 month ago when i installed and Civilization 5 and get a BSOD while was playing this game and listen a youtube video. I thought obviously was driver related, i unistalled the drivers in safe mode using DDU...

So I got the computer I have, a Dell Inspiron 15, and it came with Windows 8. I wasn't a fan, but I kept it anyway. Then suddenly after 3 years of ownership, the thing forcibly updates itself to Windows 10. I downgraded it after trying the new Windows for a few days, even though it did not have...

All I want to do is reset my pc to factory. So I got to Settings->Update/Security->Recovery->Reset This PC. NOPE "There was a problem resetting your PC" "No changes were made" Ok so Ill just downgrade back to windows 7. NOPE Been a month so windows says <unacceptable bad language removed> I no...

I was wondering if I could use my serial key to go back to Windows 8.1? I upgraded legitimately from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 and now I will be installing a new hard drive and starting from scratch because my hard drive is bad. However, I do not like Windows 10 for a ton of reasons and wish to...

I just installed window 10 on my PC and now I don't like it. I remember I left my former window 7 in the window old file. Is there anyway I can restore my PC to my former window 7 using the window old? I don't want to loose my files.

I bought a new Dell laptop which I love but I am not 100% with the OS which had Windows 10 pre installed with no option to downgrade. I don't have the answer myself right now hence the reason I thought I might ask the question on this forum. Can I buy a Windows 8 OS disc and install it that way...

Microsoft officially stopped supporting Windows 8 as of yesterday, the 12th January 2016. If you want to continue receiving support ( security updates etc) then one needs to either update to Windows 8.1 (free by the way) or downgrade to Windows 7. Support for Windows 8.1 ends in 2023 whilst...

Someone in my office has been downgrading windows on this machine and I need to figure out who.

(First of all, sorry for my bad english, im not a native speaker)Hello, i have a very big problem in here, in april, i downloaded windows 10 preview (i think it was Beta) in my laptop (Dell Inspiron 15R) in the oficial page of windows, so it was everything okay until in 31 October a warning...

Help. I've followed the prompts to switch to Windows 10 and, now that it's here, have found that I absolutely hate it. I find it counter-intuitive, unattractive to look at and few of the games/programs I had previously installed now seem to run through it. Is there any way I can return to the...

Hello. I'm new to posting / Threading or however you call it. This is a strange thing that happened to me. I downloaded Windows 10. Because I made a reservation. But I don't like Windows 10, because I can't open some programs, or they don't work. So, I looked up how to downgrade to my older...