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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...

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...