How to uninstall win8 and install win7

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Help, I have a hp laptop which came pre-installed with win 8 but I can't get on with it so I want to install win 7. I have an older hp desktop which came with win7 and I upgraded that to win 7 ultimate so I was thinking about using that licence?

Any help / ideas welcome ;)
 
Given that there's not really much difference under the skin between the two why not just look into bypassing the metro interface and installing a start button?

You can then stick with the newer os.
 
Help, I have a hp laptop which came pre-installed with win 8 but I can't get on with it so I want to install win 7.
There hardly any noticeable differences between w7 & w8 :confused:


The missing start menu button is just about the only thing I really notice,
which is really easy to replace if you do want the start button back..
 
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There hardly any noticeable differences between w7 & w8 :confused:


The missing start menu button is just about the only thing I really notice,
which is really easy to replace if you do want the start button back..

There's quite a difference between the two.

If you want to definitely change from W8 to W7, then you will need to put your W7 Disk into your CD/DVD Drive and restart the Laptop, when it gets to the boot screen, you will see it will say something like "Press F11 for BIOS" or maybe "Press DEL for BIOS", you will then want to change your Boot Listing and make your primary boot drive to the CD/DVD Drive and then save and exit, the laptop will restart and then boot into the W7 Setup, you'll want to Format the hard drive (make sure to backup anything you have on it you want to save).

This should work, not installed an OS in a long time :p
 
Thanks guys, I really can't get on with win 8 everything annoys me (maybe its my age)... I tried to watch the Eurosport player on it today and it had to open the desktop version of IE.

My win 7 was an upgrade version (got a student discount)
 
Thanks guys, I really can't get on with win 8 everything annoys me (maybe its my age)... I tried to watch the Eurosport player on it today and it had to open the desktop version of IE.

As its a laptop and not a tablet I would set it to always open in the desktop version of IE.
 
just about finished installing win 7, ive noticed it boots up quicker than win 8 :)

the only thing ive yet to manage is to find a driver for USB controller, but managed to install all the other drivers fine

thanks all
 
just about finished installing win 7, ive noticed it boots up quicker than win 8 :)

the only thing ive yet to manage is to find a driver for USB controller, but managed to install all the other drivers fine

thanks all

That'll be because its a clean install with no bloatware I imagine.

Everything I've seen points to W8 being quicker to boot and use than W7.

Certainly on my Acer W500 tablet and my laptop, a clean install of W8 is a quicker and more fluid experience than W7.
 
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