mffox Loc: Avon, CT

Has anyone who "upgraded" to Windows 10 subsequently uninstalled it successfully? This is a disaster, and I turn to my fellow Hoggers for expert advice on how to get out of it.

Mark

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Some people have done. After testing W10 pretty thoroughly I upgraded my production system and its working well, even with old unsupported things.

Good luck

kubota king Loc: NW , Pa.

did you try clicking on Settings , then click on Update and Recovery , then click on Recovery . Then choose back to what windows you had on before . It worked for one of my sister's EMT she works with . I talked to him over the phone . He said after it installed it had half of windows 7 and half of windows 10 . I did not look at it for my self to see if it installed correctly .Tom's Computer Repair

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

"...old unsupported things."
Here's hoping -
what - I keep my XP because of a legacy program that will only run in the Virtual program of Windows 7. Have been asking but no one answers about 10' capability in this regard.

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

"Like Windows 7, Windows 10 does have “compatibility mode” options that trick applications into thinking they’re running on older versions of Windows. Many older Windows desktop programs will run fine when using this mode, even if they wouldn’t otherwise.

Windows 10 will automatically enable compatibility options if it detects an application that needs them, but you can also enable these compatibility options by right-clicking an application’s .exe file or shortcut, selecting Properties, clicking the Compatibility tab, and selecting a version of Windows the program worked properly on. If you’re not sure what the problem"

http://www.howtogeek.com/219782/is-windows-10-backwards-compatible-with-your-existing-software/

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

Thanks much. I have looked, apparently not very well, for what you referred an it is exactly what I have wanted.

rustfarmer

I rolled back from 10 to 8.1 just as described, because win 10 caused my touchpad to become unuseable and the pointer had an hourglass blinking on and off next to it. I was able to get rid of the hourglass in task manager, but it would reappear each time I restarted. I plan to wait a month and try again.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

More good reasons to stay away from Win10!

mffox Loc: Avon, CT

Thank you; I'll give it a try.

mffox Loc: Avon, CT

Thank you; I'll give it a try.

mffox Loc: Avon, CT

AMEN!!

alandg46 Loc: Boerne, Texas

Win 10 installed flawlessly for me on the 2 computers of mine that I have done the installation. Photoshop CC and Lightroom work as before. I have not tested, but I believe both run a little faster. This computer when idling uses even less resources than it did on Win 7. Every piece of hardware works fine. I did not need to track down a single driver or missing .dll or anything else.

RDH

How is it a disaster? I have four computers running 10 just fine, but that does mean someone else won't have trouble.

alandg46 Loc: Boerne, Texas

I did have to go get solitaire and Freecell. I am not going to put up with ads that Microsoft stuck on the Win 10 versions, nor am I going to pay to get rid of them.

rocketride Loc: Upstate NY

I've had no problems with 10 on either of my machines that have upgraded, so far. (One from 7sp1 and the other from 8.1.) The only issues I've had to deal with, so far, are:

1) That it is very, very, very promiscuous in the data it wants to send back to MS and its business partners, not to mention every Tom, Dick & Harry website you visit (part of this is that it tries to basically ram Bing, Cortana, and OneCloud down your throat)*, so you will likely spend some time changing settings to stanch the data hemorrhage and;

2) If you want any control over its automatic updating process (beyond telling it not to download over 'metered' wireless connections), you need to be running the 'Pro' version. If you were running the 'Pro' or 'Ultimate' or 'Enterprise' edition of your previous windows version, you will get the 'Pro' version of Win10 automatically. If you are running a 'Home' or 'Basic' edition, you will need to either buy the upgrade which, IIRC is around $100 per license, or try to find a key to upgrade your current OS to Pro (price ???) and then allow the system to Upgrade to 10.

*One slight panic I had is that it appeared that the standard search had been replaced by an 'enhanced' search from the desktop that would search both the web and your computer, no matter what you were trying to find. But, no, the old style (Win 7/8.x) search is still there inside File Explorer windows