Have any of you had problems going back to W7 from W10?

Just curious. Of those of you who've upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows
7 and then gone back to Windows 7, were there any problems?

TIA
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John Corliss

John Corliss wrote:
Just curious. Of those of you who've upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows
7 and then gone back to Windows 7, were there any problems?

TIA


Not a sign of any problem.
I just restored a Macrium system image.

Ed

In message , Ed Cryer
writes:
John Corliss wrote:
Just curious. Of those of you who've upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows
7 and then gone back to Windows 7, were there any problems?

TIA


Not a sign of any problem.
I just restored a Macrium system image.

Ed

I _assume_ he was asking about those who've used the Microsoft-provided
reversion technique (-:.

My understanding is that some things aren't restored properly - mainly
things that they know won't work under 10, and were thus removed at the
time of the "up"grade.

Is that right, guys and gals? Has anyone had anything that _does_ work
under 10, not come back after the reversion - or, anything that
_doesn't_ work under 10 still be usable after "up"grade-then-reversion?


For that matter, does anyone know of - or anticipate - any problems with
the make-an-image-of-7-then-put-it-back method? You'd think there
couldn't be, but I wonder if anything at Microsoft (who obviously
register the machine as having upgraded to 10, since folk have said here
that subsequent _re_installs still validate, if only on the one machine)
might screw things up in future, even if unintentionally, for people who
have reverted using the image method. (Or who've stayed with 10, for
that matter.)

90% ...
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"John Corliss" wrote in message
...
Just curious. Of those of you who've upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows
7 and then gone back to Windows 7, were there any problems?

TIA
--
John Corliss

You already know this, but since I trust MS so little I restored an image of
W7. I've read too much about problems rolling back.

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Ed Cryer
writes:
John Corliss wrote:
Just curious. Of those of you who've upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows
7 and then gone back to Windows 7, were there any problems?

TIA


Not a sign of any problem.
I just restored a Macrium system image.

Ed

I _assume_ he was asking about those who've used the Microsoft-provided
reversion technique (-:.

My understanding is that some things aren't restored properly - mainly
things that they know won't work under 10, and were thus removed at the
time of the "up"grade.

Is that right, guys and gals? Has anyone had anything that _does_ work
under 10, not come back after the reversion - or, anything that
_doesn't_ work under 10 still be usable after "up"grade-then-reversion?


For that matter, does anyone know of - or anticipate - any problems with
the make-an-image-of-7-then-put-it-back method? You'd think there
couldn't be, but I wonder if anything at Microsoft (who obviously
register the machine as having upgraded to 10, since folk have said here
that subsequent _re_installs still validate, if only on the one machine)
might screw things up in future, even if unintentionally, for people who
have reverted using the image method. (Or who've stayed with 10, for
that matter.)

90% ...

Stick with techniques that are proven to work. And I can assure you
wholeheartedly that the image-restore one works. I've done it, lived
with it for weeks afterwards, tried everything I can think of, closed
down & rebooted many times, updated through MS, done my month-end
backups, done full virus scans; uno verbo - the lot.

It works; ça marche; es klappt; funciona; δουλε�ει; оно работает.

Ed

| Stick with techniques that are proven to work. And I can assure you
| wholeheartedly that the image-restore one works.

Of course it works, but that's not what the OP
is asking. There's no reason to assume he knows
about disk imaging or has experience with it. Most
people don't. If he did he probably wouldn't be
asking the question. He just wants to know what
to expect if he converts to Win10 and then wants
to convert back.

I don't remember seeing anything about that, either.
I guess most people who imagine they might want
to revert just assume that MS will screw it up and
are therefore not taking a chance.

Mayayana wrote:
| Stick with techniques that are proven to work. And I can assure you
| wholeheartedly that the image-restore one works.

Of course it works, but that's not what the OP
is asking. There's no reason to assume he knows
about disk imaging or has experience with it. Most
people don't. If he did he probably wouldn't be
asking the question. He just wants to know what
to expect if he converts to Win10 and then wants
to convert back.

I don't remember seeing anything about that, either.
I guess most people who imagine they might want
to revert just assume that MS will screw it up and
are therefore not taking a chance.




The "convert to Win10 and then want to convert back" is best effected my
way.
Who'd go the MS way? Nobody but a hapless fool.

Ed

John Corliss wrote:

Just curious. Of those of you who've upgraded to Windows 10 from
Windows 7 and then gone back to Windows 7, were there any
problems?

Yes and no, I used the Windows rollback feature and it really didn't
work but I'd also created an image so I restored it.

I've heard the same from others so make an image using whatever imaging
program you prefer BEFORE going to Windows 10, then you know you can go
back with no problems if the rollback feature doesn't work for you.


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Mayayana wrote:
| Stick with techniques that are proven to work. And I can assure you
| wholeheartedly that the image-restore one works.

Of course it works, but that's not what the OP
is asking. There's no reason to assume he knows
about disk imaging or has experience with it. Most
people don't. If he did he probably wouldn't be
asking the question. He just wants to know what
to expect if he converts to Win10 and then wants
to convert back.

Thanks, but I know all about disk imaging and restoring images. I was
just curious about how successful using the Microsoft supplied method of
going back to W7 was.

I you use the disk image method, you lose the W10 license I presume.
Could be wrong though.

I don't remember seeing anything about that, either.
I guess most people who imagine they might want
to revert just assume that MS will screw it up and
are therefore not taking a chance.

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XS11E wrote:
John Corliss wrote:

Just curious. Of those of you who've upgraded to Windows 10 from
Windows 7 and then gone back to Windows 7, were there any
problems?

Yes and no, I used the Windows rollback feature and it really didn't
work but I'd also created an image so I restored it.

I've heard the same from others so make an image using whatever imaging
program you prefer BEFORE going to Windows 10, then you know you can go
back with no problems if the rollback feature doesn't work for you.

Okay, that's kind of what I thought might happen. Thanks for the warning!

And frankly, I'm more interested in trying Linux Mint than I am Windows
10 now.

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On 24/07/2016 22:24, John Corliss wrote:
And frankly, I'm more interested in trying Linux Mint than I am
Windows 10 now.

You need to go to a Linux-Mint newsgroup. This is a Windows 7 newsgroup
where we can only help you about Windows 7, Operating system. There are
various other newsgroup that caters for Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 10 but
since you are interested in Linux-mint then I suggest you should search
for a Linux-Mint newsgroup where people can tell you everything about
Installation and what wonderful things you can do with it.

Hope this helps.


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On 2016-07-24, John Corliss wrote:
Just curious. Of those of you who've upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows
7 and then gone back to Windows 7, were there any problems?

I had one crash and burn, wound up with a BSOD when the "restored" Win7
booted up. Fortunately I had made an Acronis disk image backup before the
upgrade.

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Roger Blake wrote:
John Corliss wrote:
Just curious. Of those of you who've upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows
7 and then gone back to Windows 7, were there any problems?

I had one crash and burn, wound up with a BSOD when the "restored" Win7
booted up. Fortunately I had made an Acronis disk image backup before the
upgrade.

Thanks, Roger. Forewarned is forearmed! It must have been disappointing
after what I would presume was a lengthy process to attempt the update.
Lucky thing you protected yourself with a good backup.

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John Corliss wrote:

XS11E wrote:
John Corliss wrote:

Just curious. Of those of you who've upgraded to Windows 10 from
Windows 7 and then gone back to Windows 7, were there any
problems?

Yes and no, I used the Windows rollback feature and it really
didn't work but I'd also created an image so I restored it.

I've heard the same from others so make an image using whatever
imaging program you prefer BEFORE going to Windows 10, then you
know you can go back with no problems if the rollback feature
doesn't work for you.

Okay, that's kind of what I thought might happen. Thanks for the
warning!

You're very welcome.

And frankly, I'm more interested in trying Linux Mint than I am
Windows 10 now.

It may or may not work, I've spent several years trying to run various
Linux distros to no avail, the software just isn't available. I have a
computer specifically to run and use Intuit products and they are,
apparently, NEVER going to allow a port to Linux and neither Wine nor
Crossover Office will allow Intuit products to run properly nor does
Linux offer any comparable software. sigh

So think very carefully about what you need before going to Linux, if
it'll work for you, that's good just be sure!




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XS11E wrote:
John Corliss wrote:

XS11E wrote:
John Corliss wrote:

Just curious. Of those of you who've upgraded to Windows 10 from
Windows 7 and then gone back to Windows 7, were there any
problems?

Yes and no, I used the Windows rollback feature and it really
didn't work but I'd also created an image so I restored it.

I've heard the same from others so make an image using whatever
imaging program you prefer BEFORE going to Windows 10, then you
know you can go back with no problems if the rollback feature
doesn't work for you.

Okay, that's kind of what I thought might happen. Thanks for the
warning!

You're very welcome.

And frankly, I'm more interested in trying Linux Mint than I am
Windows 10 now.

It may or may not work, I've spent several years trying to run various
Linux distros to no avail, the software just isn't available. I have a
computer specifically to run and use Intuit products and they are,
apparently, NEVER going to allow a port to Linux and neither Wine nor
Crossover Office will allow Intuit products to run properly nor does
Linux offer any comparable software. sigh

So think very carefully about what you need before going to Linux, if
it'll work for you, that's good just be sure!

As I phase myself in, I'll still have the Windows 7 computer and even
this one (XP MCE SP3) to run my favorite applications on. But I'm just
not going to buy into Nadella's push to store all my data in the
egregiously named "cloud", nor his lying assurances that they have my
privacy in mind with Windows 10.

Perhaps somebody else will come along with a commercial operating system
to compete with Microsoft. Stranger things have happened.

But Windows 10? I'd rather eat dirt.

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John Corliss