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Anyone know the steps, a website link explaining how, or what to do to go back to Windows 8 once it's been upgraded to 10? I have a 1-yr old computer, but it had 8 when I bought it. When the upgrade to 10 became available, I upgraded. Now I'll need 8 again for an at-home job.
Anyone know the steps, a website link explaining how, or what to do to go back to Windows 8 once it's been upgraded to 10? I have a 1-yr old computer, but it had 8 when I bought it. When the upgrade to 10 became available, I upgraded. Now I'll need 8 again for an at-home job.
Also, can I ever go back to 10 in the future?
Thanks for ANY help you can give!
What computer do you have? Manufacturer? Model? Most computer manufacturers put a restore partition on each computer so that if you screw things up, you can boot into that system recovery partition and recover your system back to the way it was out of the box brand new. I would back up all of your files before you do this, because it will wipe all of that out, but this would be one way of going back to Windows 8 without having to do a hard drive format and reinstall from a disc.
Anyone know the steps, a website link explaining how, or what to do to go back to Windows 8 once it's been upgraded to 10? I have a 1-yr old computer, but it had 8 when I bought it. When the upgrade to 10 became available, I upgraded. Now I'll need 8 again for an at-home job.
Also, can I ever go back to 10 in the future?
Thanks for ANY help you can give!
Win 10 will do the roll back for you for a period of time. Type restore in your search bar, select go back to Windows 8.1.
Yes, you can always go back to 10, just keep the ISO - which MSFT makes available anyway - or your install disk with the key. I do not know if you can upgrade for free past June or so of 2016 even if you previously upgraded. Alternatively, you can make a image of your disk and then restore to it in the future, but that would entail losing all files and apps that you installed (or will install) since the image was made if you ever restore to that image.
Yes, you can always go back to 10, just keep the ISO - which MSFT makes available anyway - or your install disk with the key. I do not know if you can upgrade for free past June or so of 2016 even if you previously upgraded. Alternatively, you can make a image of your disk and then restore to it in the future, but that would entail losing all files and apps that you installed (or will install) since the image was made if you ever restore to that image.
skinsguy37, I was particularly interested in the AFTER 30 DAYS HAD PASSED instructions, but I couldn't understand where it said certain things, so I found a better video:
1) Keep personal files, but remove apps & settings
2) Remove everything
3) Restore to factory settings
Does anyone know if option #1 will suffice rather than #3 as it says to do in the above video?
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Originally Posted by harhar
I'm curious why you would need Windows 8 for a job?
Because unfortunately, this company I'm working with isn't keeping up w/ the times.
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