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Rolling back to Windows 8.1
I updated to Windows 10 a about 10 days ago. For a while all of my
programs worked. Then Word Perfect started locking up. now McAfee is not working the way it should I have decided to go back to Window 8.1 as I was very satisfied with is performance and all of my programs worked. It I roll back to Windows 8.1 from Windows 10 is it a true roll back or is it just a disguised Windows 10 pretending to be Windows 8.1/ Will programs that previously worked under Windows 8.1 work when I roll back. |
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Rolling back to Windows 8.1
On 8/17/2015 9:50 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
I updated to Windows 10 a about 10 days ago. For a while all of my programs worked. Then Word Perfect started locking up. now McAfee is not working the way it should I have decided to go back to Window 8.1 as I was very satisfied with is performance and all of my programs worked. It I roll back to Windows 8.1 from Windows 10 is it a true roll back or is it just a disguised Windows 10 pretending to be Windows 8.1/ Will programs that previously worked under Windows 8.1 work when I roll back. Basically answered in the windows-10 newsgroup. Unless a user installed program was installed while in Windows 10 or upgraded while in Windows 10 then it should work just fine after a roll back. With the above said, some anti-virus programs that update daily might need to be re-installed for example depending on how extensive the program upgrade was. |
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Rolling back to Windows 8.1
On 8/17/2015 10:50 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
[...] Will programs that previously worked under Windows 8.1 work when I roll back. Why not get back to us after a couple weeks, and let us know? Good luck with that. -- Best regards, Neil |
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Rolling back to Windows 8.1
Keith Nuttle wrote on 08/17/2015 10:50 AM:
I updated to Windows 10 a about 10 days ago. For a while all of my programs worked. Then Word Perfect started locking up. now McAfee is not working the way it should I have decided to go back to Window 8.1 as I was very satisfied with is performance and all of my programs worked. It I roll back to Windows 8.1 from Windows 10 is it a true roll back or is it just a disguised Windows 10 pretending to be Windows 8.1/ Will programs that previously worked under Windows 8.1 work when I roll back. Roll back methods (e.g. Go Back feature in Win10, Image created from 3rd party, etc.) are point in time. - you end up with a device at the point in time the upgrade occurred (Go Back) or the date of the created image (Acronis, Macrium). Which method will you use (Win 10's Go Back, 3rd party image, other) ? -- ...winston msft mvp windows experience |
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Rolling back to Windows 8.1
On 2015-08-17 2:20 PM, . . .winston wrote:
Keith Nuttle wrote on 08/17/2015 10:50 AM: I updated to Windows 10 a about 10 days ago. For a while all of my programs worked. Then Word Perfect started locking up. now McAfee is not working the way it should I have decided to go back to Window 8.1 as I was very satisfied with is performance and all of my programs worked. It I roll back to Windows 8.1 from Windows 10 is it a true roll back or is it just a disguised Windows 10 pretending to be Windows 8.1/ Will programs that previously worked under Windows 8.1 work when I roll back. Roll back methods (e.g. Go Back feature in Win10, Image created from 3rd party, etc.) are point in time. - you end up with a device at the point in time the upgrade occurred (Go Back) or the date of the created image (Acronis, Macrium). Which method will you use (Win 10's Go Back, 3rd party image, other) ? We did a roll bsck in our office as we have some dos programs that will not print with windows 10 32 bit. I restored win 8.1 image made with Macrium. HS |
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Rolling back to Windows 8.1
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:31:54 -0400, HS wrote:
On 2015-08-17 2:20 PM, . . .winston wrote: Keith Nuttle wrote on 08/17/2015 10:50 AM: I updated to Windows 10 a about 10 days ago. For a while all of my programs worked. Then Word Perfect started locking up. now McAfee is not working the way it should I have decided to go back to Window 8.1 as I was very satisfied with is performance and all of my programs worked. It I roll back to Windows 8.1 from Windows 10 is it a true roll back or is it just a disguised Windows 10 pretending to be Windows 8.1/ Will programs that previously worked under Windows 8.1 work when I roll back. Roll back methods (e.g. Go Back feature in Win10, Image created from 3rd party, etc.) are point in time. - you end up with a device at the point in time the upgrade occurred (Go Back) or the date of the created image (Acronis, Macrium). Which method will you use (Win 10's Go Back, 3rd party image, other) ? We did a roll bsck in our office as we have some dos programs that will not print with windows 10 32 bit. I restored win 8.1 image made with Macrium. I don't intend to upgrade from windows-7, but if you don't roll back prior to installing the macrium backup, don't you risk getting MS confused regarding validation. HS |
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Rolling back to Windows 8.1
Dave Cohen wrote on 08/17/2015 8:39 PM:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:31:54 -0400, HS wrote: On 2015-08-17 2:20 PM, . . .winston wrote: Keith Nuttle wrote on 08/17/2015 10:50 AM: I updated to Windows 10 a about 10 days ago. For a while all of my programs worked. Then Word Perfect started locking up. now McAfee is not working the way it should I have decided to go back to Window 8.1 as I was very satisfied with is performance and all of my programs worked. It I roll back to Windows 8.1 from Windows 10 is it a true roll back or is it just a disguised Windows 10 pretending to be Windows 8.1/ Will programs that previously worked under Windows 8.1 work when I roll back. Roll back methods (e.g. Go Back feature in Win10, Image created from 3rd party, etc.) are point in time. - you end up with a device at the point in time the upgrade occurred (Go Back) or the date of the created image (Acronis, Macrium). Which method will you use (Win 10's Go Back, 3rd party image, other) ? We did a roll bsck in our office as we have some dos programs that will not print with windows 10 32 bit. I restored win 8.1 image made with Macrium. I don't intend to upgrade from windows-7, but if you don't roll back prior to installing the macrium backup, don't you risk getting MS confused regarding validation. HS No. -- ...winston msft mvp windows experience |
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