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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...

Hey guys, i'm having an MSI Laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed and i downgraded to windows 7 (so, i have had to delete the partitions, so.. no recovery partition is there anymore). Now what if i want to go back to windows 8? What i have to do exactly? Because i've read that the Win8 Key is...

I'm trying to help a friend to downgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 7 Ultimate, but i get an error. The error is something like: The computer, is a Compaq CQ2000.

Hey all! I'm about half-way set up to solve a problem that came in the snail-mail. Here's the back story. My current 64 bit computer and my wife's current 64 bit computer are both on their last legs. She goes online and gets replacement computers to tide us over for a few years. Major problem...

dear All, my web custom application in my company incompatible with ie 9 and above. maybe active x or javascript that not compatible. then its should downgrade from IE9 or IE10 to IE8, the problem is, when i install IE8 on windows 8 i can not install. please advice could IE8 installed on...

So I had Solid Edge ST5 on my Win 7 64bit, but I had to downgrade, because my school uses ST4. That may not help, but my problems is, that I uninstalled the newer version(ST5). Now, when I try installing the older version(ST4), it says that I have another version still on, but I don't. So, in...

Windows 8 is currently being shipped by all major computer manufacturers as the default operating system of choice on most systems. Some computer shops, including Microsoft certified stores and repair shops (many of them Mom & Pop - Short Circuit 2 looking places), are offering to downgrade all...

If you aren’t a fan of Windows 8 but want a new laptop that comes with Windows 8 preinstalled, you’ll be happy to know you can actually downgrade it to Windows 7 without having to reformat. Here’s how. More » More...

Hello, My computer's HDD had died and all data was lost. I gave for fix but windows ultimate was installed instead of home premium and I want to downgrade because its not genuine and I don't have windows installation CD. Is there any possible way of downgrading without clean install and CD ...

This morning I spent 2 hours, that's right... 2 hours, installing Win 8 Pro. Win 7 takes about 30 minutes... and that's a full install from scratch. Anyway, after downgrading my laptop from Win 7 to 8 I re-ran the Windows Experience Index test. Not only did all of my scores drop by 0.1, but I...