windwfrm Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Hi,I received a new laptop as a present, with windows 8. Now I want to downgrade to Win 7. Will there be any problems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 I believe that you cannot just downgrade - you have to install Windows 7 from scratch, re-install all your software (and data if it is on the same parttition as Windows 8).A laptop usually has a hidden partition set up by the laptop manufacturer where the original set-up is stored in case the laptop ever needs to be restored in future. You would lose that facility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 The biggest problem you will have as I see it is that you will invalidate the warranty on your new machine - which could be disastrous if anything fails within the warranty period.Give W8 a chance before you dismiss it and downgrade. It isn't as bad as you might think on initial trial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Following pops advice - I would recommend that you retain Windows 8 and download one of the Windows 8 start menu programs.Stardock start8 is a good one which I have used on my Notebookhttp://www.stardock....roducts/start8/Once you load this (or an equivalent one) you will not have to use the horrible tiled destop and you will be using Windows 8 - but looking and behaving exactly like Windows 7.I don't know whether your laptop has a touch screen - this is another factor for you to consider. If you were to downgrade to Windows 7 you have to also download an MS add-on called "Touch" to be able to use the touch screen. I understand however that this is not as effective as using Windows 8 with a touch screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Once Win 8 is set up it is a good OS, give it a chance.You can drag and drop the shortcuts to your taskbar so after one click to get to the desktop you have all your icons for the programs you use.Or it can be set up the way I have posted an image of, and use the Win key to move between the desktop and the metro interface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Downgrading: (The original question asked in this post)It seems at the moment that for the most correct and up to date advice on downgrades on computers purchased with Windows 8 pre-installed. - Contact the computer manufacturer or Microsoft. Each and every individual downgrade thanks to manufacturers and Microsoft is now fast taking on the ability to become unique.Manufacturers such as HP have been playing silly buggers when it comes to downgrading from W8 to W7. So now, and as time goes by, you would probably also have to read the downgrade terms of other computer manufacturers as they could well start doing U turns when it suits them, and oh yeah, also read the terms of Microsoft themselves of course.So it could be that............. "How do I downgrade from Windows 8" is not really an answerable question until you have read your own particular downgrade terms..=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.Could I just give a reminder again of what I said the other day, which I think will remain to be a bone of contention in diagnostics, or when either 'happily singing the praises of ', or 'grumpily deriding ' Windows 8 on forums or in articles.Diagnostics of, or points of view about Windows 8 that are given without certain critical information about the boot system used, become next to useless and will forever be ambiguous.(01) Windows 8 has been designed in this release to boot from either BIOS or UEFI. (I.E. - Microsoft has given us an O/S that is backwards compatible for the time being.)(02) Therefore: Can you truthfully say that you are giving good advice or viewpoint without knowing which boot system is being used, or at least have realised that an updated boot system has been released along with Windows 8, and of course that Windows 8 is being used widely in this dual "backwards compatible" scenario at this present moment in time ?(03) Windows 8 is probably the first Major operating system to take extensive advantage of UEFI. How are you booting your copy of Windows 8 ? - BIOS or UEFI ?My point here is that if you were to tell someone that Windows 8 were a perfectly good stable system, and you were booting from an old straight or possibly altered BIOS environment, - and he/she were booting from the new UEFI environment, how could you justify that such a statement were true if the problem they were encountering, or their objection to windows 8 was dedicated solely to UEFI ?Link: for information on UEFI:http://www.uefi.org/home/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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