[Seaplaner]

I'm not the most tech-savy millenial (I'm almost 70), but I find Windows 10 fairly easy to navigate, it has some useful apps, and it's more secure.

Thanks, but I'll stick w 10.

[McGruff]

I’m sticking with Windows 7 for as long as I can. My Dell PCs never have a problem validating. It stores the product key somewhere internally.

[Ragnar Danneskjöld]

Is this version compatibility stuff still going on in the PC community? It used to drive me crazy, constant driver issues for peripherals, video cards that wouldn’t work with the latest OS, software that would puke after an OS upgrade, etc. Seemed like I was rebuilding my computer every 18 months to keep up with the craziness.

Enjoy those PC’s, fellas. We suffer our own frustrations on the Mac side, but overall its a much smoother experience.

Now bring the hate! haha

[WildHighlander57]

Thanks for posting this guide !

[rexthecat]

Windows 10 works fine for me. I left Windows 7 long ago and have no need to go back.

[Simon Foxx]

Having hung on to Windows 7 until last month, I am pleased to report that my new HP Envy laptop with Windows 10 is LIGHT YEARS faster than my Windows 7-loaded LOUSY Dell laptop*.

(I suspect a lot of that bad experience had to do with the laptop brand, not the operating system. My backup Acer laptop with Windows 7 runs much better).

Windows 10 is actually easy to navigate, and, with a little time over the first month, I managed to reinstall all of the Windows 7 appearance features that I missed, while retaining the superior WIndows 10 operating system.

I am very pleasantly surprised.

* I cannot recommend Dell machines. They SUCK and break down wayyy too easily (just my personal experience).

[Conservative Gato]

There is one other option I have found but it’s not on all computers. Sometimes the partition for the Windows 7 setup files is still there and wasn’t wiped out by the W10 upgrade. If you can get to the original recovery options and the W7 setup files are still there, you can reinstall W7 from there and it should have your product key saved and activated upon reinstall.

CGato

[daniel1212]

Not recommended; 2 years can come fast:

http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/windows-7/windows-7-support-end-11364081315419 ''

Get http://www.classicshell.net/

Right Click Context Menu Extender

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-4-windows-10

[Nuc 1.1]

Tried 10 went back to 7. Don’t intend to buy another windows machine. Sick of having to learning how to interface with the machine every time they come out with a new version. Will reconsider if they bring back the XP interface.

[little jeremiah]

I was influenced to upgrade my laptop from Windows 7 to 10.

I hated 10 with every fibre of my being. More and more with each passing day. Went back to 7 a few days ago but DH had to do it with a tech guy and also did his computer and it has created a very hard situation to fix.

Windows 10 makes it so I had no control over anything and it was stupid, childish, no “search” but “Ask Cortana” and inane and aggravating “suggestions” popping up and I never could find anything on my computer, it would save things multiple times in weird locations, and on and on.

Maybe for tech people it’s good, but for techtards like me, it was hell.

I’m still not back on my regular laptop yet.

[Karl Spooner]

I just started to get updates again on win7 for some reason.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Starting early last year, my Windows 7 Elitebook started getting slower and slower. Around October it was taking 20 minutes to launch Kali in VMWare with 16 GB of RAM.

I suspected that Windows was hamstringing Windows 7 for about 6 months when I ran across this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/06/researchers_say_windows_10_patches_punch_holes_in_older_versions/

[ptsal]

windows 10 to 7 bookmark

[Dalberg-Acton]

Windows 7 had its problems, too. Like having USB devices work on one port but not another. Like updates causing software to cease working. Like communicating behind your back to “Gates knows who” over the network.
I dumped Microsoft on the desktop and laptop, glad I did. Its just etch-a-sketch now, baby!

[euram]

I installed Windows 10 when it first came out, and it didn’t take me long to figure out that I didn’t like it. I then reinstalled Windows 7.

[Wuli]

I thought this was not so useful, until I discovered that Win 10 has at best (there are different stats out there) no more than 1/2 the Windows OS users.

I have a Laptop in Win 10, only because I did not know about the 30-day opportunity to revert back to Win 8, and a desktop PC I still use Win 7 on.