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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
Hi All,
I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? Many thanks, -T |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
On 01/29/16 11:46, T so wittily quipped:
Hi All, I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? Many thanks, -T the rumors I hear are a) clean install, b) phone activation |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
On 01/29/2016 11:59 AM, Big Bad Bob wrote:
On 01/29/16 11:46, T so wittily quipped: Hi All, I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? Many thanks, -T the rumors I hear are a) clean install, b) phone activation Bummer! Fortunately he has his w7 disk and oem sticker Thank you anyway. |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
T wrote:
Hi All, I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? Many thanks, -T Not unless a prior to Win10 upgrade Win7 image exists. -- ....winston msft mvp windows experience |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
On 29/01/2016 20:46, T wrote:
Hi All, I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? Many thanks, After the 31 days, windows.old (which contained the windows 7 files) is deleted. After that, I don't think you can "dowgrade" and migrate 10's applications to windows 7. You have to install windows 7 again or restore it from some backup or recovery image if you happen to have it. |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
On 01/29/2016 12:30 PM, edevils wrote:
On 29/01/2016 20:46, T wrote: Hi All, I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? Many thanks, After the 31 days, windows.old (which contained the windows 7 files) is deleted. After that, I don't think you can "dowgrade" and migrate 10's applications to windows 7. You have to install windows 7 again or restore it from some backup or recovery image if you happen to have it. Bummer |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:46:30 -0800, T wrote:
I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) For a while here, Windows Update had Windows 10 listed as an optional update AND automatically check-marked. If I had left Windows updates on automatic instead of "let me choose", I would also have been upgraded without requesting. -- Kind regards Ralph |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
On 01/29/2016 01:06 PM, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:46:30 -0800, T wrote: I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) For a while here, Windows Update had Windows 10 listed as an optional update AND automatically check-marked. If I had left Windows updates on automatic instead of "let me choose", I would also have been upgraded without requesting. For my w7, w8 customers who do not want w10 or want to lose the space on their hard drives to the download, I install GWX Control Panel http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/201...ly-remove.html |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
T wrote on 2016/01/29:
I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Tell your customer that if he/she is going to assume the role of sysadmin that they should be reviewing EACH update BEFORE installing it. Turn off automatic updating and look at each update offered. Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? Sure. Have this sysadmin-assuming user restore from one of the backup images that were saved before making major changes in either hardware or software. Yeah, I know, you have an ignorant user playing sysadmin who has nowhere near that expertise. Tell them to start digging for the Windows 7 installation media to do a fresh install of Windows 7 (followed by the many hours of updates, application installs, and all configuration or tweak changes). However, before they start all that, have them start saving their data files onto removable media. Maybe getting burned with having to escape route will teach them the value of having regularly scheduled backups. They should even be doing that with the Windows 7 fresh install so they have an image of plain Windows 7, Windows 7 after all the updates, Windows 7 plus all apps, and Windows 7 plus apps plus config changes plus data files. Start their backup training with the fresh install of Windows 7. |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
T wrote on 2016/01/29:
Big Bad Bob wrote: T so wittily quipped: I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? the rumors I hear are a) clean install, b) phone activation Bummer! Fortunately he has his w7 disk and oem sticker Thank you anyway. So this self-professed sysadmin didn't bother to read the manual to follow the instructions on how to create factory-restore CDs from the hidden hard disk partition. This user now gets to call the OEM and pay a fee to have restore CDs postal mailed to him. |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
T wrote:
Hi All, I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? Many thanks, -T Jesus, doesn't anyone make backups any more ? :-) Paul |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
Paul wrote:
T wrote: Hi All, I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? Many thanks, -T Jesus, doesn't anyone make backups any more ? :-) Paul Did the majority ever ? -- ....winston msft mvp windows experience |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
Paul wrote:
T wrote: Hi All, I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? Many thanks, -T Jesus, doesn't anyone make backups any more ? :-) Paul Backups? We don't need no stinking backups! |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
On 1/29/2016 10:21 PM, ...winston wrote:
Paul wrote: T wrote: Hi All, I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Is there any way to revert back to 7 after the 30 days expires without wiping and reinstalling? Many thanks, -T Jesus, doesn't anyone make backups any more ? :-) Paul Did the majority ever ? The way windows comes on the new PC, many people have no place to put a backup, even if they wanted to. Takes some planning and a modification of the partitions to make backups quick and easy without buying external drives. |
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Is there a way to revert to 7 after 30 days has expired?
On 1/30/2016 3:46 AM, T wrote:
Hi All, I have a customer that waited to long to call me after he upgraded his 7 to 10. (He claims he did not request that, but...) Suggest a complete re-installation of Win 7. You got a clean starting point and you never knew what Win 10 had done to drive C:! -- @~@ Remain silent. Nothing from soldiers and magicians is real! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and farces be with you! /( _ )\ (Fedora release 23) Linux 4.3.3-301.fc23.x86_64 ^ ^ 17:57:01 up 19:22 0 users load average: 1.11 1.07 1.05 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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