Help Downgrading from Win10 to Win7 and 32gbit vs 64gbit advice please

Hi there, newbie here, pls be gentle.

Have a Laptop which used to work absolutely fine but then I upgraded to Windows 10 but one of my favourite games won't play properly and have found out it's an issue /conflict with W10 - so I'd like to go back to Windows 7 if I can.
Questions are:

My Machine is 64bit but I have an original Windows 7 32bit disc etc, can i use that? If so, would there be any performance issues, someone mentioned the machine would run slower due to suppressed RAM usage (currently have 8gb and need every bit of it for the game)

Any advice greatly appreciated, if not I'll just throw this lappy and buy a brand new one with Win7 on it, wish I'd never changed

Thanks guys.

Oh poo, oh well, new lappy it is then :)

Thanks for your quick and helpful reply.

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
Yep a reliable system image and recovery disk would of been a great idea before upgrading your previous install
Imaging with free Macrium

Win-7 64 bit home premium are still available and pretty cheap at Amazon/...
Or you could borrow a friends if the version is the exact same as yours,
A lot cheaper than a new laptop

I did think about that tbh, but I never know what to trust and which disc is going to work the best. They are all over ebay and Amazon and range from £35 to £100 but for some reason I'm loathe to do it... maybe I should have a deeper look into it ... thanks for that.
Oh, it also says that the discs are for "builders" and not "end users" (like myself) how can I get round that or would it be OK?

MM

strollin said:

You should be able to easily go back to Win 7 on that machine. See this article: How to Uninstall Windows 10 and Downgrade to Windows 7 or 8.1

Hi,

Thanks for that but it seems that's different to my situation.
I bought my laptop with Windows 8.1 on it and only upgraded to Windows 10 recently (like most) and I didn't really like Windows 8.1 (although the game worked well with that) but ideally if I'm going to revert backwards I would rather go to the one that was always the best imo and that's Windows 7.

I'll have to have a think about it :)

Thanks again for all your help.

ignatzatsonic said:

You can still buy a Windows 7 64-bit license that would allow you to use all 8 gb of your RAM. You can't use over 3 plus with 32 bit.

Hi there

Yup, thanks for that, understand now but what about the question I posed regarding the installation of it as an end user and not a "builder" ? I can buy one from Amazon sure, or ebay or other retailer but they all stipulate they should be used by machine builders and not end users for up/downgrades... is there any way round this?
I need all 8gb I have so wouldn't consider going down to 32bit as I said...

Cheers