Windows 8 Pro Downgrade to Windows 7

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• DELL refuses to honor the Windows 8 Pro downgrade rights

  XPS13 (early 15) purchased for the CFO.  No. 7 Pro achievable so I bought a Pro 8 model with the intention to exercise my downgrade rights.

  Spent 4 hours shoehorning 7 Pro plus all the drivers on it.  Last step is activation.

  Try to activate and call Microsoft by them Backgrounder:

  

  They tell me to call the OEM as only the OEM can make OEM key.

  Call Dell (politely and patiently) over and over again and get:

  -hooked upward on

  -told to call Microsoft

  -said to return the system and order a version of Windows 7 (does not exist)

  -said to order Windows 7 Media (does not exist)

  -a said several times by several representatives that Dell has a 'special' OEM license that does not include downgrade rights.

  How the hell do you expect Dell maintain the SMB space (i.e. people not their operating system volume licensing) with this skin and * - and - bull story?

  Nobody knows the correct channel at Dell to get this very basic need met?

  Right of demotion for the license OEM Dell Windows 8/8.1 Professional requires a Dell Windows 7 Professional reinstallation DVD order to use the OEM System locked preinstallation. See here where I explain licensing and how SLP activation works more in detail:

  http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/a-clean-install-of-Windows/a-clean-install-of-Windows-7/the-OEM-or-retail-license-and-product-activation-Windows-Vista-7/

  License OEM is a minefield and with Microsoft break the digital distribution of windows 7 that it becomes even more difficult.

• Windows 7 Pro downgrade to home edition

  I really wish can I downgrad my Windows 7 Pro to the edition of hospitality, every step of the way, it gives me headaches with Access Denied, so much time and so frustrating, is that this conversion is possible anyway? Considering the hours I need to clean the registry from a program that could not be uninstalled manually, except sometimes it won't let me even delete entries and you can understand my frustration with this Pro edition.

  Decommissioning will not solve the problem. You must resolve all that is initially denied access issues now.

  Reset the security permissions:

  One option is to reset your default security permissions by running the following command:

  secedit/configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf/db defltbase.sdb / verbose

  For more information, you can see KB 313222.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/313222

  Also be aware of the following:

  «.. . command line is no longer able to reset all default security settings and can even result in the operating system becomes unstable. »

  If this does not resolve the problem, your installation can be irreparably and the only other option is to reinstall them all. As you may know, there is a recovery disk. If it has not been provided, you will need to contact your employer who sold you the computer.

  If you want to downgrade the security permissions, please see the following:

  How downgrade Windows 7 Editions . Releasing it's easy: ...

• Microsoft Windows 8 PRO Downgrade to Windows 7 PRO

  Greetings,

  This post is more than a complaint about Microsoft INABILITY to support its biggest business customers, in the hope that someone at Microsoft will really help me, instead of giving me the evasive that was given to me for the last 3 days...

  I bought 100 Dell Vostro MT270 i3 Machines. All came with pre-installed Windows 8 PRO...

  We have problems with Internet Explorer 9 and above with our Cloud National environment in which Microsoft Axapta 2012 runs.

  Over the 3 days I tried to get in on the good service in Microsoft ranks to eventually get the product key of Windows 7 PRO for these OEM installed machines. I even offered to provide supporting documents (invoices and delivery as proof of my purchase slips)

  Every department I got through where was forwarded to, listened to my story and informed me that I needed to talk to another Department.

  Finally, this afternoon I decided to call Microsoft States in the hope of some kind of miracle... Instead, I lost 40 minutes of international calls from South Africa to be told that I had to talk to the Department of volume licensing for OEM pre-installed Machines?

  Finally, after that be go asked me for our partner number or software assurance.

  Unfortunately for me, our group Enterprise Architect was not available to give me this info. Furthermore, I was not ready to waste any more time or money on call international USA.

  I read on the Net that to downgrade from Windows 8 PRO to Windows 7 PRO I need my own media (check), and a Windows 7 product key to complete install (check).

  The problem here is I can't use a product key Windows 7 PRO currently in use on a work machine, and I have certainly not 100 old Windows 7 PRO Machines...

  All I need is that Microsoft provide me 100 license keys for this downgrade or a unique product key I can activate 100 times.

  It's really not that complicated a situation, however everyone I talked to has made it seem like they must move heaven and Earth to assist me.

  This isn't how you support your customers Microsoft!

  If there is someone who can help me with my problem please reply...

  Paul Connick (MCP)

  The best person to contact about this would be great reseller account which installer of your Microsoft volume license agreement.

• Windows 8 Pro downgrade from Windows 7 Pro

  I upgraded my laptop to Win XP Pro to Win 8 Pro. Can I down Win 7 Pro? If so, the Win 8 Pro key will work for Win 7 Pro as well?

  No and no

  You will need to purchase the Windows 7 Professional license if you want to downgrade to Windows 8.

  Version upgrade - Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade

• Satellite L40 - 14N: no sound with Windows XP Pro downgraded

  Hello fellow owners of Tosh

  I just got my L40 - 14N slow Vista to XP, which went well, to a point.

  All the drivers I used comes from the Toshiba web site, including the * "Realtek High Définition Audio Codecs R1.84" * it did not work. If I go into Device Manager all the yellow dots mark are now gone! But I have no sound and when I enter the control panel of configuration/sounds it is indicating "No. Audio Device.

  He had the same problems or ideas would be great.

  JC

  PS. I have also the wi - fi light does not work, not really fussed on this subject, it worked on Vista!

  It's easy.
  I've seen many users with the same issue.
  The problem is that you didn t install the patches from Microsoft XP.

  Patches are needed for the operation. First you must install the KB888111 and KB835221 hotfix before you install the audio driver.

  Maybe you should take a look here also:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?forumid=59&ThreadId=25916

  Good bye

• Vista Business / XP Pro downgrade question

  I bought a computer with Vista professional which has been downgraded to XP Pro.  The product key that comes with it is for Vista Business.  I can't install Vista Business using the key provided with the computer?

  Contact the manufacturer of your computer on the downgrade rights and recovery DVDs:

  Can I downgrade my OEM version of Windows Vista business to Windows XP Professional?

  Yes. Right of demotion OEM desktop operating systems PC apply to Windows Vista business and Windows Vista Edition full, as stated in the terms of the license. Please note, downgrade versions OEM Windows Vista business and Windows Vista Ultimate are limited to Windows XP Professional (including Windows XP Edition Tablet PC and Windows XP x 64 edition). End users can use the following media for their downgrade: Volume Licensing media (provided that the end-user has a Volume License Agreement), trade retail (FPP) or System Builder hologram CD (provided that the software is acquired in accordance with the Microsoft OEM System Builder License). Use of degraded operating system is governed by the Windows Vista Business license terms, and the end user cannot use the downgrade and professional Windows Vista operating system. There is no right of demotion for Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Edition Home Premium.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Question about the use of recovery disks Vista Bus on T500 with XP Pro downgraded

  I searched to see if this has been addressed already and I don't see anything about it. I also looked through the Lenovo support site and could not find any documentation with specific information, that I'm looking. So, if all goes well, the people here will have an idea.

  I have a T500 which was ordered with retired on WinXP Pro. It also came with a set of Vista Business (four discs) recovery disks. I plan to get my machine with Vista business records and down XP Pro, but I had a few questions.

  1. as it currently stands, I guess that the R & R partition that is on the HARD drive at this time restoring a WinXP Pro system if I start and get back with her. Is this correct?

  2. If I boot from the recovery disc Vista Business and use it for the recovery of the system, it creates a new partition 'Factory' R & R which would incorporate a Vista Business install?

  I may be wrong on my assumptions and even after the start of the R & R partition, it is really the recovery disks that I choose to use that would dictate if I found myself with a XP or Vista Bus. System.

  For what it's worth, I created a set of recovery disc R & R for the installation of WinXP Pro in case I need to revert to this version.

  I hope that my question is logical and that someone out there has an answer for me.

  Thanks in advance!

  jskang, welcome to the forum,

  Yes on both counts.

  Removal of all the hard drive recovery disks, create the service partition and then the system installs from the recovery with the flavor of windows partition, so that the discs are.

  It was a good idea to create the XP discs.

• Can I Pro downgrade to the standard?

  I downloaded a copy of the XI Acrobat pro that I could not find a standard edition on the Web site. I want to know is if it is possible to downgrade from Pro to standard according to which license key put you in. I don't want to spend hours on my connection slow work re download the correct version.

  Thank you

  Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Standard are different installs, different products.

• Satellite P300 - 14 p from Premium from Vista to XP Pro Downgrade

  Would it not make sense to delete the Partition of C:Vista then install XP in C drive (once recreated) if not. How to install XP safely?

  I'd be able to get the drivers for my laptop running XP and the Toshiba utilities would still work?
  And finally - I was wondering if I could go back to vista

  THX
  Brad

  Hello

  First of all, it would be desirable to create Toshiba Recovery DVD before you install or remove anything from the HARD drive.
  The recovery DVDs is a hot spare that could be useful to restore the laptop to factory settings.
  This means that if you want to retrieve the Vista on your laptop, you should only use the recovery disc then the whole package Vista with Toshiba drivers, tools and additional software would be back on the HARD drive.

  Secondly it s not wrong to install Win XP on the C partition. I mean you can install Win XP on different partitions, but if you want to replace Vista with XP you could install XP on partition C too.

  I don't know if XP drivers are available for this series from Mr. phone what series is this exactly? Check the bottom of the unit. On the label, you should find a few model numbers

• Lenovo Vibe Z2 KitKat 4.4 Lollipop Pro downgrade

  I've updated Kitkat Lollipop and the situation is that the blind man's house furniture was shifted. It is therefore hurt whenever he moves into the House.

  He has a lot of bugs.

  (1) If you are on any other screen except sleep and someone calls, call information from a menu drop-down and its very annoying as you lose option on how to handle the call.

  (2) a lot of menu items have been transferred or are not available as the rotation of the screen in the menu drop down.

  There are a lot more problem and instead of struggling to figure out and waiting for the bugs to remove, I would go back to 4.4 Kitkat. Please explain step by step how it was possible.

  Phone info is as below:

  Model: Lenovo K920

  Android version: 5.0.2

  Baseband version: MPSS. DI.4.0.1 - 00147

  Build No.: K920_S271_150907_ROW

  Rgds

  Surender

  Thanks, I'll try that and get back with the results
  Thanks again for all your support
  Rgds
  Surender

• HP 355 G2: update Windows 7 Pro for Windows 8 Pro

  We are a charitable organization of small learning supporting 3 other charitable organizations who were lucky enough to get funds to buy laptop computers.  After buying 12 we seem unable to talk to someone at the supplier or the HP that can solve a very simple problem!  The laptops have the system operating Windows 7 Pro but included in the box is a Windows Pro 8.1 operating system and it seems that you can not pass directly from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 and get a drive of Windows 8 for each of 12 laptops is impossible.  The provider does not have the technical know-how (even if a technology company!) and HP will not talk on the phone a number as large as 12!  I'm still trying to solve this problem after 4 weeks.  I do not think that we will buy HP new equipment!

  Hello:

  While I do not work for or represent HP, W8.1 OEM disk Pro comes with your laptop is only for a clean install of Windows 8.1.

  It is not intended nor permitted to be used as an upgrade disc.

  You cannot spend W7 to W8.1 and keep the existing programs with this disc.

  If you want to install W8.1, you need to boot from that disk and follow the instructions on the screen to do a custom (clean) installation of W8.1.

  This disc is a full installation disc and product key OEM of W8.1 in the BIOS of your PC will work for a clean install of W8.1 OEM.

  Your laptop came with W7 Pro installed through W8.1 Pro downgrade rights.

  Make sure that you create a recovery W7 media for each cell that you plan to install W8.1 on because you will not be able to reinstall W7 without a license key, if you decide you want to come back on W7.

  The HP Recovery Manager program to create the recovery media before installing Windows 8.1.

• Windows XP Pro to Windows 7 Pro...

  My father recently passed away, and I have an Optiplex 780. Proof of license/certificate of Authenticity on the Tower shows the OS to be Windows 7 Pro and the product key is referenced. The computer is in fact running XP Pro. Is there a way to move to 7 Pro? I'm not sure of what he was doing, but from what I've been able to muster in doing the research, there was a 7 Pro downgrade to XP Pro. Can I upgrade to Pro 7 and if so, how? We are still going through some of her things, but have not yet find discs. I recently did a new install of XP Pro and had to delete and create a new partition. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I hate to just see the computer collecting dust. :/

  Update the BIOS for final revision A15:

  http://downloads.Dell.com/FOLDER01655390M/1/O780-A15.exe

  See updating the BIOS. It is a legacy (non-UEFI) BIOS:

  http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/updating-the-BIOS/

  Once this is done you must download a Windows 10 TH2 .iso and clean install using your product key Windows 7 Pro (check that you select Windows 10 Pro when installing). This should be done on another computer as the 10 Windows Media authoring tool does not work on Windows XP:

  http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/download-Windows-10-OEM-and-retail-ISO/

  If you have any other computer (Windows 7, 8.x or 10) to run the tool of creation of media Windows 10 you can use the direct Techbench no downloads. See here for more details:

  http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/download-Windows-10-Th2-and-prepare-a-bootable-USB-on-Linux/

• ProBook 450 upgrade of windows 7 to windows 8

  I just bought a Probook G1 450 with Windows 7 Pro installed.

  What is the best way to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro the supplied DVD?  I work from home if higher security options is not necessary.  The HP support site gives two options - inplace upgrade and clean installation as below.

  http://h20566.www2.HP.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.page/public/PSI/upgradeMigrateDisplay/?sp4ts.Oid...

  Also where can I find the Windows product key?

  Thank you.

  This is NOT official HP customer service and I, like most other people on this forum do not work for HP. It is a forum for users of peer-to-peer supported for class for the HP consumer products. HP maintains no official presence on this forum and it is unlikely that HP will respond in an official capacity. Response of an employee of HP represents his own opinion and not that of HP.

  Sales page of HP for HP p/n F2P35UT - HP ProBook 450 G1 States;

  "Windows 7 Professional 64 (available through Windows 8 Pro downgrade rights)
  Note: This system is preinstalled with Windows 7 Professional software and also comes with a license and support for Windows 8 Pro software. You can only use a version of the Windows software at a time. Switching between versions you need to uninstall a version and install the other version. You must back up all the data (files, photos, etc.) before you uninstall and install operating systems to avoid the loss of your data. »

  This disk is not a standard Windows installation disc and "clean" and "inplace upgrade" options do not apply. Regarding the Windows product key, it must be integrated in the HP Wndows Pro 8 installation media and Windows must be previously activated.

  If you want to reinstall Windows 7 Pro at any time in the future, you create your personal set of HP Recovery / restore before installation discs for Windows 8 Pro included disks.

  HP ProBook 450 G1 of laptop is a class computer business and as such, may be the best answer to your question in the HP Enterprise Business Community. It is also possible to contact the HP Business Support Center for assistance with your question.

  If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

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• 405 proDesk G2: how to activate Windows after replacement of the motherboard

  I upgraded my G2 405 ProDesk to Windows Pro 10 of the original OEM Windows 7Pro earlier in the year.

  Last week, is not the motherboard.  The PC is still under warranty, so HP arranged for a replacement on place of the motherboard.  It worked well, except that windows is activated is no longer.  I called Microsoft with the installation ID in order to get a re-activity windows confirmation ID.  Microsoft said that I need the original license key.  I don't have that because it's an installation OEM from HP with, arguably, the key in the BIOS that has been replaced.

  So what I do now?  HP will issue me with a license key given that the PC is still under warranty?

  Just to clarify, the license was Windows 8.1 Pro downgraded to Windows 7 Pro, so there was a key Windows 8.1 on the original BIOS but the PC came with Windows 7.

  Your post got me thinking, however. I ran the FirmwareTablesView.exe application on the new motherboard and found a license key in the BIOS.  Then, I went to change the product in Settings\Update & security key and enter the key of the new BIOS.  Activation was then successful.