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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...

Hi I'm thinking about getting a new Dell XPS laptop. It comes installed with Windows 10. I would rather use Windows 7. My question can I format the the new Dell laptop and install a new copy of Windows 7. Or are there too many driver specific components on a new XPS that need Windows 10 to...

Fred Langa On Wednesdays, we'll be featuring an abridged Q&A from Fred Langa's LANGALIST, a feature available exclusively to paid subscribers of the Windows Secrets newsletter. Today's Q&A: How do I uninstall Windows 10 and go back to the infinitely preferable Windows 7? read more Continue...

So to get started i have a Vaio laptop NOW i know i read the article about microsoft telling you NOT to update vaio laptops but when i went away for a week to visit a couple of buds my brother ended up updating it. I had problems with Windows 10 so i decided to downgrade back to Windows 7 and...

Hello, I've recently had some troubles with moving between Win8.1 and Win10, and decided to stick with 8 for the time being. When I got back there, I was met with two strange things: My internet explorer homepage is Hao123 And my taskbar menus have different backgrounds to the typical, including...

Hi I recently upgraded Win 7 to Win 10; though it looked nice, several of my apps would not work, In particular, Kaspersky IS and NVIDIA Experience just would not work. I fiddled around for ages and, finally. downgraded back to Win 7. After several registry problems, I got KIS 16 and NVIDIA...