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Upgraded to W10 from W7 and now want to rollback to W7.
Is it possible?
I hope so.
Is it possible?
I hope so.
Why do you want to roll back? honestly if you can stay on 10 you should.
Even though a rollback option is available for "some time" (an arbitrary limitation) the best option would be to simply reformat and reinstall 7 from scratch so you have a sane system again. You cannot trust entirely that the system would be rolled back at the very same state it was after a major upgrade like that.
Out of topic, the inverse is also true. For changing from Win7 to Win10 a clean install is also preferable, giving a pristine Win10 system without any Win7 leftover that won't do you any good.
Even though asking the reasons behind such a move is good for some background, I'm puzzled why one should stay in a non-prefered environment, even if the reasons against it are strong enough.
I'm guessing Mike made the upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 within the last 5 days.
Am I being scammed by Spectrum and or Microsoft?
Every upgrade I did, none of which were clean installs, were done with a hardware migration, meaning I kept the old OS drive as a backup. I still have my XP HDD from 2014 and my 32-bit 7 SSD. My 64-bit 7 SSD will be shelved in the same manner. It came in handy recently when I tried and failed multiple times to get my system working on modern hardware before finally succeeding. It's also great for bringing back memories, I was able to recover a few photos and game save files that I accidentally deleted.
You should've kept a backup. But if you insist on rolling back and your period is up, you can use something like PCMover to migrate from 10 to 7 while keeping your files and most of your settings.
If you still have the product key for Windows 7 I suggest you just reinstall Windows 7 and activate it with that key. That is what I did.
I did the free upgrade from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro in July 2023 on an old laptop. I eventually decided that Windows 10 on it was just too slow. I replaced the hard drive with a different one and reinstalled Windows 7 Pro. It activated fine with the Windows 7 key I had.
I am glad I kept the hard drive with Windows 10 because last September Microsoft started blocking all attempts for people to do the free upgrade from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10.