Can we recover windows 8?

I currentaly using windows 8! I would go to 10 windows but I don't know if I can go back to having windows 8 back if I don't like windows 10! If there is a way! Please help me to know how! Thank you!

Hello, Henry.

Welcome to the Microsoft community. I will certainly help you answers to your questions.

In order to upgrade to Windows 10 Windows 8, you will first need to upgrade to 8.1 Windows and then book your free update of Windows 10.

To install Windows Windows 8 8.1, you can consult the following Microsoft article.

Upgrade to 8.1 Windows: FAQ

Once you switch to Windows 8.1, you can book your free update of Windows 10. To do this, refer to the following article:

How to book your free update of Windows 10

Once you upgrade to Windows 10 and want to downgrade to Windows 8.1, you can do so by following the instructions in the article below:

http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Insider/wiki/insider_wintp-insider_install/how-to-recover-restore-your-previous-version-of/76b6750c-5bb2-40bc-a7e3-f03cec62338b

Hope this information was useful.

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