Upgraded to Windows 10 Over a Month Ago, What should I do to go back to Windows 7?
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ShadyHamster
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Windows 10 is a pretty solid OS, have you updated all your drivers and what not?
I've got Win10 on 3 systems with vastly different hardware and have had no issues with any system yet.
If you don't have the original Win7 key it's going to be hard to revert since Win10 only gives you a month to revert to your old OS.
I've got Win10 on 3 systems with vastly different hardware and have had no issues with any system yet.
If you don't have the original Win7 key it's going to be hard to revert since Win10 only gives you a month to revert to your old OS.
Its an alright OS, but Im having issues with tabbing out of games, and razer synapse on windows 10 is taking a toll on my mouse, it freezes relatively often, and counter strike global offensive ran into some issues, caused my game to go haywire out of nowhere and took around 7 hours to actually find out what the hell was going on. Overall, the pain i'snt worth the aesthetics.
theunliked
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You will have to do a clean install.
You should look into fixing the graphics glitches though. You'll have to upgrade sooner or later anyway. Remember in 1 year it won't be free and you'll have to buy windows 10. These graphic glitches come from windows update auto updating gpu drivers. Uninstall them and go to manufactures website to install manually.
BTW, what gpu do you have?
You should look into fixing the graphics glitches though. You'll have to upgrade sooner or later anyway. Remember in 1 year it won't be free and you'll have to buy windows 10. These graphic glitches come from windows update auto updating gpu drivers. Uninstall them and go to manufactures website to install manually.
BTW, what gpu do you have?
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''You'll have to upgrade sooner or later anyway''
No I don't think so. Microsoft supports w7 till 2020, five years to come. There is plenty of time. And people are still using XP with no problems at all even after the end of the official support. And at least I want to use stable and working OS instead of a buggy one, even if I had to pay later on.
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You have a few choices:
1. Contact Microsoft and explain your situation. Perhaps they will provide you with a solution/new key so you can reinstall Windows 7.
2. Buy a new Windows 7 key and reinstall the OS
3. Download the Windows 10 ISO file from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Once you have burned./copied the ISO to disk/USB, do a fresh install of Windows 10. You don't need the product key if you have already registered Windows 10. Once you have fresh install download the most upto date drivers for your GPU. Doing this should give you a more stable and faster system.
1. Contact Microsoft and explain your situation. Perhaps they will provide you with a solution/new key so you can reinstall Windows 7.
2. Buy a new Windows 7 key and reinstall the OS
3. Download the Windows 10 ISO file from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Once you have burned./copied the ISO to disk/USB, do a fresh install of Windows 10. You don't need the product key if you have already registered Windows 10. Once you have fresh install download the most upto date drivers for your GPU. Doing this should give you a more stable and faster system.
theunliked
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I know, but microsoft is still ironing out the bugs. Why not stick with windows 10 and work out how to fix the problem?
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