Help downgrading to Windows 7

[Justin124631]

Can someone please help me downgrade my computer to Windows 7.

 

[samuria]

Welcome to the forum. Down grade from what? If it's win10 is it a new installation or upgrade if it's upgrade you can role back for 30 days. If it's a new pc before you do anything you need to know if drivers can be downloaded for 7 often there are no drivers for 7 as it's no longer supported.
Why do you want to install a system no longer supported?

 

[Justin124631]

I have a Gaming PC that runs Windows 7 which is my main computer. My school laptop had Windows 7, but unfortunately died. So I bought a Lenovo laptop for school/tafe a few months ago which came with Windows 10. After using Windows 10 for a few months I have gained hatred towards the user interface and how everything works on it. So I need help trying to downgrade my Lenovo laptop to Windows 7.

 

[Barman58]

You will need to check that the device will support the older OS, many major manufacturer's are no longer developing drivers for Windows 7 on Newer equipment. There may be generic base drivers available depending if the laptop is made for the business market, or you can manage with basic drivers from the individual components makers.

The best thing is to check if Lenovo ever supplied the exact model you have with Windows 7 Installed - obviously if this is so then the drivers should still be available but you would have to source them from Lenovo yourself - check the support pages for your model

 

[Justin124631]

I checked Lenovo don't supply drivers for Windows 7 for my laptop model. I found every driver except the touch pad driver. Once I find the correct touch pad driver I should be able to install Windows 7 no problem.

 

[Barman58]

The touch pad drivers may be easier to find than most, as the major manufacturers tend to "buy-in" touch pads rather than design their own ...

The following is a Wiki entry that may provide a start point - Touchpad - Wikipedia

Synaptics are the big manufacturer's favourite but if all else fails you can get USB touch-pads that may work for you. there may be details in the device manager as to what is fitted

Trick is to save the registry before trying any test driver install and restore original before the next - this should keep cross contamination to a minimum, ( a system image is even more reliable of course)

 

[SIW2]

Worth checking in bios if there is a touchpad setting called something like "basic".

 

[samuria]

Have you got drivers for new things like usb3 which arnt supported in 7

 

[Bree]

... win10 ... if it's upgrade you can role back for 30 days....

Used to be a default of 30 days, but MS reduced that to 10 days a year or so back. Their reasoning being that telemetry showed that users would either roll back in the first week or not at all. So they shortened it to 10 days in order to release the space windows.old occupied ASAP. The number of days can be changed if needed to anything in the range 2-60 days.