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2014-07-19, 14:28 | #1 |
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Downgrading W8 to W7
Okay, so i decided to buy my mom a new PC, unfortunately the store only had W8 laptops.
I thought that i could teach her how to use it, but after 3 days of looking at that stupid thing, i want it to be a W7 instead, now i have a W7 CD that i can use, BUT the stupid laptop doesn't have a fricken cd-driver in it, so i was wondering is it possible to downgrade from W8 to W7 without a CD? |
2014-07-19, 14:55 | #2 |
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Re: Downgrading W8 to W7
USB drive installation
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2014-07-19, 14:57 | #3 |
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Re: Downgrading W8 to W7
omg, how can i not have thought of that?! lol, thanks Psyrus
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2014-07-19, 16:40 | #4 |
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Re: Downgrading W8 to W7
Imo, Microsoft have made some really good improvement on Windows 8 especially on Windows 8.1 system it's more smoother and smart than Windows 7, really bad idea to downgrade (Imo of course).
There is theme wich simulate exactly the Windows 7 desktop and windows. You can find the original .iso of Windows 7 on some torrent's website but stay away from TPB and stuff, i recommend you to check out a national one with good feedback. When you have the .iso get an usb flash drives >= 4Gb and use the Microsoft tools : Microsoft Store |
2014-07-21, 13:21 | #5 | |
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Re: Downgrading W8 to W7
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2014-07-21, 13:32 | #6 | |
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2014-07-21, 13:36 | #7 |
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Re: Downgrading W8 to W7
lol, just did it as you typed that
That was a great piece of software |
2014-07-23, 08:17 | #8 |
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Re: Downgrading W8 to W7
http://images2.store.microsoft.com/p...B-DVD-tool.exe
Try this, it's simple and from Microsoft itself. You just need the ISO you want to burn to the USB drive and at least a 8GB flash drive. It will only burn 32 bits ISOs to the flashdrive if your system runs on 32 bits, same for 64 bits systems. BTW, be aware that erasing the W8 from the related computer will wipeout the original W8 from it forever if it's OEM. You will pretty much lose the license you bought with the computer. |
2014-08-16, 05:20 | #9 |
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Re: Downgrading W8 to W7
The info above is pretty straightforward but I'm going to write this in case you accidentally dink your OS and can't load it or receive trouble while doing it the "easy way".
Pretty much get a decent USB stick with the recommended memory and install & format the Windows OS on it, there should be tutorials on legal installations floating around the web, I would link one but they differ between scenarios on the user's end. After you have installed & formatted the USB correctly plug it in your computer so it is recognized upon restart/power off + power on, go into your BiOS and make it run before anything else does (in the event of an OS already being installed on the computer, so you would be running the "CD" before the "C:\ drive" which would eventually be formatted to a factory-like configuration as far as memory-wise). I had to do a complicated method because I made a dingus move of damaging Windows 7 somehow and couldn't recover it through a CD method nor the given method above due to the inability to even log in my account, so I had to do something a little heavier. This might not even help but I'm bored and wanted to give you some insight on what a alternative can be in some cases. |
2014-08-16, 13:04 | #10 |
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Downgrading W8 to W7
You can disable most of the new Windows 8 features. I have Windows 8 on one of my computers and I have it boot into the regular desktop and it has a start menu.
I like it because it does run a bit better than 7 and still looks like it. |
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