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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...

Last night i installed windows 10. It took a while but in the end, it succeeded. Except for the icons in my desktop kept disappearing and appearing... I shut down my computer and when i started my pc this morning, it didn't work! I got the choice between restarting my pc or opening advanced...

without going in to gory details.....I have an older laptop with windows vista on it. I need to put windows 98 on it. if I download windows 98 will it override the windows vista? will windows vista, even, allow me to try and do this? I need this done to help my grandson who has an older...

I upgraded to windows 10, but for some reason a large amount of my ram is being used as well. I start up my pc at 70% some times. I have 8gb of ram. Also, if i were to downgrade back to 8.1, would the ram still get consumed as much? Regedit, going to NDU and then to start and changing it to 4...

For Windows 10 beta testers there’s slightly less control because the final version of Windows 10 will automatically download and install automatically for these users. This is also great news apart from one significant unknown: the ability to downgrade...

I bought my computer last November, since then, I installed windows 10 technical preview, now whilst the OS is good, its getting too buggy for me too handle at the moment, saying this, I would like to downgrade to windows 8.1 which was my original OS. The only problem is I don't have any other...

I just reset my windows 8.1 using the reset feature that wipes out your files and re installs the OS. now i'm back to Windows 8, but it says my product key is invalid, and that i have windows 8 pro. I got my computer from best buy and i think they just had a core windows 8 edition installed. so...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (March 5, 2015): Advisory revised to clarify the reason why no workaround exists for systems running Windows Server 2003. See the Advisory FAQ for more information. Summary: Microsoft is aware of a security feature bypass vulnerability in Secure...

Hello, I wonder if the windows without losing my files may I turnto 8 merhaba acaba dosyalarımı kaybetmeden windows 8 e dönebilirmiyim

Hi! I installed windows 10 some time ago and now i would like to uninstall/downgrade it to windows 8.1. How ever, my installation stops at 93% and it just says that the installation has failed. Nothing else. My computer is ASUS X73TK. I have created usb recovery drive and tried to install it but...

Good Morning and hello to all, I have recently purchased an Asus with the following specs: Windows 8 x64 build 9200 Asus X102BA 1.0 SER and cHASSIS :DANocx509191425 Boot Mode UEFI with successful Secure Boot Windows 8 (x64) (build 9200) Install Language: English (United Kingdom)...

I have had Windows 8.1 on my tower for about a 2 months now. Am just getting tired of how controlling it is. I made comments in the past as to how good it was. I was being optimistic. Just missing all the good stuff in Windows 7. I don't care if I have to do ALL those updates. I want...

Lumia devices running Windows Phone 8.1 Preview for Developers should downgrade to Windows Phone 8 to install Lumia Cyan update. Continue reading...

Hi All, I had to replace my hard drive last week and I've had so many issues with regards to re installing Windows 7 (64). At first it was because of a bad media type, from the burn I did on another computer. So I rectified that by burning the iso with another computer. All seemed good but...

Hi A while back I updated to Windows 8.1 and had sound problems with very distorted sounds especially for speech and in games. I'd like to update again, but today I looked to see if the problems had been fixed by Creative. I found new drivers for my SB Recon3D PCIe sound card and installed...

I am about to install a Win7 on a new Lenovo H530 desktop that came with Win 8 pre-installed. Anyone with experience on some similar downgrade-installation for a Lenovo-desktop - and in particular, which drivers I might need to hunt down new versions of? Web-sites appear most unhelpful, with...