Windows 10 To Windows 7 Or 8.1 In Simple Steps

How to Uninstall Windows 10 / Downgrade Windows 10 to Windows 7 or 8.1?

As the name downgrade suggests, here I’m gonna tell you how you can uninstall Windows 10 if you’ve upgraded your genuine Windows 7 or 8.1. Note that this technique isn’t applicable if you’ve performed a clean install to have Windows 10.

To downgrade to Windows 7 or 8.1, you'll want to access the Recovery option with your Windows 10 PC. To access this, press the Start Button and click on the Settings option.

Now, you’ll be seeing the Settings window with options like System, Devices, Accounts etc. Find the Update & Security option and click on it.

In the modern Update & Security window, you’ll get the Recovery option. Here, your Windows PC hides recovery options like Reset this PC and rolling back in the older version of Windows. Reset option makes your Windows 10 installation a new one while Go back in Windows 7 or 8 is going to take your system with a previous version of Windows. Click on Go to Windows 7.

You’ll be asked the reason behind Windows 10 downgrade. After filling an option, you’ll be taken to the previous OS.

Note:

If your Windows 10 installation is more than a month, then you can certainly not downgrade Windows 10 to Windows 7 or 8.1. You are unable to accomplish that because the Windows.old folder inside your system drive gets deleted after monthly. This option won’t work even if you had run the disk cleanup utility to completely clean up the older installation files.