How To Undo a Windows 10 Upgrade - Comments Page 2

Upgrades to 10 went flawlessly on two desktops.I realize that there is a learning curve, as with most everything. So far, I like it. It is similar enough to 7 that the wife isn't complaining either. However,when I converted my HP laptop it developed the time consuming habit of rebooting from sleep mode. Couldn't find a fix so went back to 7. I tried this twice with two different hard drives and the results were the same.Going back to 7 was no problem.Two hard drives..one the original and one a solid state upgrade. I will search for a solution to the sleep problem and then go to 10 asap. Any ideas? Are we lucky to have this Rankin column or what?

Bob, Semi-related question: After reading your article (but maybe skimming some details ) I upgraded to Win 10 from 8.1. No major complaints; no great enthusiasm, either.
But I somehow missed the step about creating installation media. Can I still do that post-upgrade? For example, I've considered reformatting my HD, so how would I install Win 10 on that PC "from scratch"? Thanks very much.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This should help:
http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

I've been reading lots of comments from PC-World, etc., re all the privacy issues with Win 10. One "expert" wrote that Win 10 even captures my Amazon, etc., passwords. So I'm taking a very long look-and-think session before I ever install Win 10. Meanwhile it can just sit. At this point, there are just too many "horror stories" for me to proceed further. My Win 7 is working just fine. So no big push to switch just yet for this old man.

The new Edge browser seems to not be able to allow the Extensions necessary to support my IP Cameras...Have had to make IE-11 the default....

If one already has the VLC Player app already installed on Win 8.1, when the upgrade takes place to Win 10, will the VLC Player carry over, or will it still have to be reinstalled to watch videos?

1st off.....my PC was loading Win 10 literally ALL DAY........& the set up was Totally different.....Hell, WIN 8 is NEW.........& I Know what to do & where I'm going........ I erased Win 10 within 2 hours.......

I am glad, finally, Windows 10 is here. I have a couple of computers that still operate on Windows Vista. Is it ever possible to give them a Windows 10 upgrade? I know that Windows 7 and 8 get free upgrade. Do I even have to scratch my head about the upgrade or just dump them in the trash?

I upgraded to W10 and started to have major problems with AOL & staying connected on-line. A week later, AOL notified me that they have a fix, AOL 9.8
Everything works well now.

"In order to keep using your AOL Desktop software with Windows 10 please upgrade to the latest version now."

Hi Bob, thanks for your good and practical articles on Win10. I find them all very helpful. When I bought my current PC it came with Win7. But I decided to repartition the hard disc, in order to have more partitions, (500GB). After doing that I reinstalled Win7, but the installer split it and put the parts on 2 different NTFS partitions! (Is that normal?).The other 5 partitions are all linux Ext.4, on which I have installed various Linux OS´s which I like. Some time in June, I signed up to receive the Win10 Upgrade. On August 4, M.S. posted a message to say that it was ready for installation on my PC. So I clicked "Yes" to install. It all went very smoothly and took 1.5 hours to install and 1.5 hours to configure, then it was up and running. I like it because it is very like Win7 but with upgraded drivers and lots of new goodies. All my apps. function well. Also, it is faster than Win7. I have decided to keep it and not return to Win7.

But my main point is that my Win10 includes Windows Media player, in spite of all the reports to the contrary! I don´t know if it has come over in the upgrade from Win7, or whether M.S. have put it there as an afterthought. Has anyone else had the same experience?

The only problem I have experienced is that when I close Win10 it does not always switch off the CPU and I have to do a double take. Thanks again for your great articles.

Tried to update to windows 10, a window appeared stating that 10 did not support my bios. Am I out of luck or will that change in the future.
Thanks Albert

i upgraded my 4 year old Toshiba & loved Win10 once I got accustomed to the differences from Win7 but the way themes worked and were applied was wonky, my 3rd-party screensaver didn't work (minor annoyance) and, most importantly, my touchpad & keyboard went all screwy! One day I could scroll with my touchpad and the next I couldn't! It took me a day to fix that problem but when I did, my function lock was enabled and I couldn't disable it which caused my spacebar to not work! I couldn't fix the touchpad without breaking the function lock and vice versa! I finally decided to rollback to Win7 but that got stuck and Windows wouldn't boot. I ended up restoring from the system image I took before upgrading.

I have upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and have no problems.

I cloned 7 to a spare hard drive and upgraded 10 to that disk. Both drives function perfectly.

I have had LOTS of experience with "rolling back" to Windows 7. (I avoided Windows 8.x like the plague.) The only machine that I experienced a hassle-free upgrade to W10 on was my late wife's six-year-old Aspire notebook! Installed perfectly the second time around. W10 "broke' my VPN software on my relatively new ASUS "media" computer, so I rolled it back, too. Hassle free!

What's galling to me is that I've also had to roll back the "home grown" desktop machine that I use every day for "everything" THREE times...and it's my most powerful and most recently built computer. It has an Intel Quad core i3 CPU (3.30GHz), 8 gig of RAM and MEGA HD storage. It seems that the Microsoft and Realtek haven't gotten together on a driver that W10 will recognize my Realtek GbE PCIe family ethernet controller OR my D-Link USB WIFI controller So, after upgrading to W10 (three times after attempting to install the "latest drivers", I had NO (nada, zilch) network or Internet connectivity.

Thus, I am REALLY pleased with how easy it is to roll back to W7! I'm also not at ALL sure that W10 was ready for "prime time" when it was released.

Thanks for letting me rant a bit while agreeing with you about the ease of rolling back! ;-)

Chuck

Hi Bob after a full week of errors...& more errors, I started the roll back process and I am told "We're sorry, but you can't go back. The files we need to take you back to a previous version of windows were removed from this PC"(!!) windows 10 for this computer has been a disaster..13 pages of clips of "Reliability History" Report, on the first day 58 Critical errors...nothing is every free!

I upgraded from Windows 7 Ultimate that was running on a Asus EEE Top that I believe was a creature spawned in 2006. Other than hours to install eventually all was mostly good. (I had to reinstall my HP Printer driver but that was painless.)

Initially I stuck it on an elderly tower from an unknown company that I got at a yard sale for $20 last summer. That was a trip from Win7 Home to Win10 Home that was equally painless.

So far no increase in speed seen but they are old computers. Again after hours of upgrading all was fine, and everything worked flawlessly.

I upgraded from Windows 7 Ultimate that was running on a Asus EEE Top that I believe was a creature spawned in 2006. Other than hours to install eventually all was mostly good. (I had to reinstall my HP Printer driver but that was painless.)

Initially I stuck it on an elderly tower from an unknown company that I got at a yard sale for $20 last summer. That was a trip from Win7 Home to Win10 Home that was equally painless.

So far no increase in speed seen but they are old computers. Again after hours of upgrading all was fine, and everything worked flawlessly.

it took me 5 days to get windows 10 to work on my computer I had 81 virus on my computer I had to clear off the virus's be for I was unable to use my computer. I never had the virus on my computer until I put on windows 10.

I "upgraded" to Windows 10 last night and I think that my computer is an idiot. PDFs don't open, I don't have a Start Menu as was touted. In fact everything is slow. I can't connect as the tile showing available connections won't open. I guess I could go on. My computer is an HP with a 4th gen I7 quad core processor so there is plenty of horsepower. Oh yeah the Explorer tab has disappeared.

Update on my experience of installing Windows 10:
FOURTH time was the charm! (No thanks to Microsoft). I finally found a driver for the Intel chipset (LAN) on my mainboard that allowed me to install the Realtek LAN driver and D-Link USB WIFI controller. I Has to UNinstall (and delete) them in Windows 10 and then install them in compatibility mode using the latest Windows 8.1 drivers. Apparently, there aren't any "true" Windows 10 LAN driver out there yet.

Anyway, I'm up and running and writing this update in my Chrome browser in Windows 10! :-)

[By the way, Windows Media Player works just fine in Windows 10. In fact, it runs even quicker with better video and sound quality, IMHO.]

No sound on my 4-yr old HP all-in-one. Everything checks out positive including drivers in device manager. Frustrating.