14-AC015TU HP: HP 14-AC015TU, 8.1 Windows or Windows 7?

Dear HP support,

I have a HP laptop 14-AC015TU in my office, used by staff in my office.

When the first time I bought it, I installed it with 64-bit Windows of 8.1 and it worked fine. Somehow, because of office politics, I was recently invited to modify the operating system to Windows 7. So I reinstalled it with Windows 7 64 bit, but unfortunately, it seems that the laptop becomes slower in performance (much slower in fact) compare to when he was still installed with Windows 8.1.

As for check, is HP laptop 14-AC015TU actually 100% compatible with Windows 7? Or is it better to install Windows 8.1 on it? Please advice.

Thank you and best regards,

Denny Rahardjo

It may be that Windows 8 has more builtin drivers for the hardware that Windows 7 does. Missing/incorrect drivers can cause bad performance. It is, of course, assuming that use you the Windows disk at retail rather than HP recovery for the installation media and haven't checked out your Support page for pilots.

http://support.HP.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-14-ac000-notebook-PC-series/7771392/model/8254654#Z7_3054ICK0K8UDA0AQC11TA930O2

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