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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...

For all the talk about the advantages of Windows 8 over Windows 7, for example, account sync, better multiple monitor support, and faster startup timessome people just can't get past Windows 8's radical shift in user interface . Some may even want to ditch Windows 8 altogether in favor of...

I am having an issue downgrading to 7 Ultimae to 7 Home premium. I am doing it because my brother had his computer worked on by our Nephew, and he went from XP to 7 ultimate with a hacked copy of 7 ultimate. I have done a fresh install, but it keeps starting and reverting back to Ultimate...

Hi there, I had been trying since the past 2 days to install windows XP professional 64 bit in my sony vaio (vpceb3gfg) running windows 8 release preview. I downloaded the windows XP pro x64 and slipstreamed it using nLite to integrate the iaStor.sys controller driver to include support for SATA...

I am using live mail and when I try to forward a message that has photos I get this warning: "One or more of the pictures in this message could not be found. When you send this message the pictures will not be included" Is there a solution to this? Outlook express had no problems with photos...

I am a newby and have been using Thunderbird for my e-mail account. Somehow, Thunderbird was updated to 10.0. Now my e-mail texts are so small that I can barely read them. I downloaded an application that allowed me to increase the size of the fonts in the listing. However, the messages are...

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OK, I upgraded from home to windows ultimate and it totally destroyed my laptop computer. I don't have any drivers it doesn't read that I have wireless internet. Ethernet cable works but Ive been downloading drivers for my computer and nothing is helping. There is still my old version of windows...

I'm running 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate and am wondering if I should downgrade to 32 bit because I've heard I would get a better performance. Should I? My PC specs are in my sig. Thanks, Jason

Is there any reliable way to downgrade win 7 ultimate 32 bit to home premium 32 bit.