{"id":6049,"date":"2016-01-20T01:51:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T01:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=6049"},"modified":"2016-01-20T01:51:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T01:51:43","slug":"windows-10-downgrade-revert-back-to-previous-windows-8-or-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/windows-10-downgrade-revert-back-to-previous-windows-8-or-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Downgrade: Revert Back to Previous Windows 8 or 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft offers Windows 10 as a free upgrade for Windows 8 and Windows 7 users. You only have one month to decide if you want to keep Windows 10 or not after upgrading from Windows 8 or 7. If you find out some things don&#8217;t work properly or the new OS is not suitable for your taste, you can downgrade or revert back to your previous Windows 8 or 7 system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Revert Windows 10 Back to Previous Operating System?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Press the <strong>Windows<\/strong> key + <strong>I<\/strong> to launch PC Settings app. You can also open it by clicking the <strong>Start<\/strong> button at the bottom left of the screen and then select <strong>Settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Update &amp; security<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pc-settings1.png\" alt=\"pc-settings\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6050\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Select the <strong>Recovery<\/strong> tab from the left side. If you&#8217;re eligible to downgrade you should see an option that says Go back to Windows 8.1 or Go back to Windows 7. If you see it, click <strong>Get started<\/strong> to go through the downgrade process.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/windows-10-downgrade.png\" alt=\"windows-10-downgrade\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6051\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>The whole process should not take longer than 10 minutes or so, and your system will be just as it was before Windows 10.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t see this downgrade option, that&#8217;s possible because it&#8217;s been too long since you upgraded to Windows 10. Windows 10 will automatically remove these installation files after 30 days.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft offers Windows 10 as a free upgrade for Windows 8 and Windows 7 users. You only have one month to decide if you want to keep Windows 10 or not after upgrading from Windows 8 or 7. If you find out some things don&#8217;t work properly or the new OS is not suitable for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894,3,39],"tags":[2490,2495,2494,2493,2492,2491],"class_list":["post-6049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-downgrade-windows-10","tag-downgrade-windows-10-to-windows-7","tag-downgrade-windows-10-to-windows-8","tag-windows-10-revert-back","tag-windows-10-revert-to-windows-7","tag-windows-10-revert-to-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}