On 22/11/2017 23:24, Keith Nuttle wrote:
I bought a HP Stream 7 tablet with 32GB of storage. It came with
Window 8. I installed Windows 10 but in the several revision have
lost the Recovery partition to increase free space, so don't have
access to the OEM installation.

Over the period I am having increasing problems installing the Windows
10 updates, because of the small size of the CPU and the limited storage.

I have two questions.

1. If I revert to Windows 8, will I gain enough free space, that it
will continue to update through the period of MS support?

Yes but why do you need updates? What new features Windows 8.1 updates
give you? All you need is Windows 8.1 but apart from that just use it
as you would like any other systems. There is no point in sitting in
front of a machine watching new updates coming to your system. They
come if they want to come otherwise don't have nightmares!!.


2 If I do revert to Windows 8 will the product Key that I used to
update to Windows 10, allow me to downgrade to Windows 8 using the
same Key? (The computer was purchased about 6 month before Window 10
came out so the key is on the computer.

Yes. Your system will continue getting Windows 10 as long as it is still
fit for new Windows 10. You may not know this but each Windows upgrade
is a new Windows system. In the old days Microsoft called them Windows
XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 but now they are all
Windows 10. In 2025 we may still be using Windows 10 despite the fact
that it might have changed beyond recognition.





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