Downgrade (upgrade?) Win 10 to Win 7

riscbroker said:
I use Porteus and Knoppix (as live boot) regularly, and I've had a go at HDD installs of a few other distros. I love it but none of the Linux flavours talk to an iPhone with any degree of confidence, and I can't run EQ APO on Linux.
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Never found the need for my pc to "talk" to my old iphone. If you're doing iphones then you need to go for a mac and not windows.
 
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Thanks very much for your info sajunky. According to CPU-z, graphics is 620, chipset is Kaby Lake Rev. 02. From your links it looks like the Win 7 install should be OK.

I also came across this info on a Win 7/Win 10 dual boot:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...s-8-with/9ac7acc1-2152-4907-a9de-bd507273a57d

so I'm considering this in case the Win 7 install fails, then I don't have the mission of reinstalling Win 10.
 
Drake2007 said:
Never found the need for my pc to "talk" to my old iphone. If you're doing iphones then you need to go for a mac and not windows.
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You used to be able to back up all apps to a PC then restore to your phone at your leisure - very useful in many circumstances, especially if you tend to jailbreak and upgrade/downgrade your iOS version, like I do. Apple did away with this when they introduced 'App thinning', so I guess the dependency on Windows is not so great now.
 
I had my Wi-Fi connection set to metered, and that worked for a week or so, until Windows complained that a specific function ( I think it mentioned Bluetooth, and I use that to stream audio) was being crippled due to me forcing a metered connection. So I disabled the metering and Windows promptly reinstated some Realtek audio drivers that I had carefully disabled. To be fair though, MS does state that using a metered connection will likely affect some apps/functionality.
 
Ivan Leon said:
Try one of the solutions in the article link below, or use the Group Policy Editor in Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise (NOT available in the Home version) to disable updates, except for the system critical ones, as I have done.

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https://www.howtogeek.com/224471/how-to-prevent-windows-10-from-automatically-downloading-updates/

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As your picture indicate clearly, Group Policy setting is provisional. It is a reason I gave up with weaponised Windows and do advice others doing the same.
 
So I tried the dual boot, but I didn't bother with a USB, just burnt Win 7 to DVD and installed from Win 10. Setup now allows you to choose OS at boot, default is Win 7.

I've manged to install chipset and graphics drivers (thanks to sajunky), Wi-Fi drivers I got off the Intel site, but I'm really battling with Bluetooth and most importantly, USB drivers. My mouse (I tried standard MS mouse and Logitech wireless) works, but no response from the scroll wheel. The system doesn't recognise any USB drive that I plug in. USB ports on the machine are 2x USB 3 and 1 x USB 2. Any suggestions?
 
riscbroker said:
So I tried the dual boot, but I didn't bother with a USB, just burnt Win 7 to DVD and installed from Win 10. Setup now allows you to choose OS at boot, default is Win 7.

I've manged to install chipset and graphics drivers (thanks to sajunky), Wi-Fi drivers I got off the Intel site, but I'm really battling with Bluetooth and most importantly, USB drivers. My mouse (I tried standard MS mouse and Logitech wireless) works, but no response from the scroll wheel. The system doesn't recognise any USB drive that I plug in. USB ports on the machine are 2x USB 3 and 1 x USB 2. Any suggestions?
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Okay, Im not understanding why you dont download the window 10 drivers?
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https://support.hp.com/za-en/driver...-15-au100-notebook-pc/12499208/model/16337791
 
I think you missed a bit of the action. The laptop is preinstalled with Win 10, obviously works fine. I dislike Win 10 and want to get to Win 7 on this machine. I have installed Win 7 as a dual boot, now I'm battling to find some of the Win 7 drivers, specifically USB and Bluetooth. The HP site has no Win 7 drivers at all for this particular machine.
 
Try installing Bluetooth and USB drivers through the device manager.
 
riscbroker said:
I think you missed a bit of the action. The laptop is preinstalled with Win 10, obviously works fine. I dislike Win 10 and want to get to Win 7 on this machine. I have installed Win 7 as a dual boot, now I'm battling to find Win 7 drivers. The HP site has no Win 7 drivers at all for this particular machine.
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Aaah, then you deserve this. Sorry, thought you were lookin for win 10 drivers.
 
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The problem comes down to manufacturers not releasing drivers for Kaby Lake for Windows 7. With the USB issue, Intel stopped releasing USB3 drivers after Windows 7, everything for Win8 and above relied upon the in-box Microsoft driver. The Intel INF chipset software might give you your USB2 port back, but I don't know if you'll have any luck with USB3 at all.
 
Thanks Asha'man X, I've tried just about every possible option that I can find, I loaded the Intel chipset software but not even the USB 2 port works properly. I think I'll have to abandon this plan 'cause I can't even get Bluetooth going, and there are a bunch of other entries in Device Manager that are not functional.
 
For Bluetooth drivers google manufacturer according to VID/PID. Be aware that Bluetooth might be served by the same chip as WiFi, so drivers for WiFi and Bluetooth must be synchronised. With USB, I agree, is going nowhere if Intel do not supply proper USB drivers, as it is a part of their chipset. It is the same story behind of killing Win95 with lousy USB2.0 drivers when Microsoft wanted to people to use Windows Millenium.
 
I tried a few solutions to try and fix the USB drivers but nothing wants to work. I can't get the onboard BT working and I can't use a USB BT dongle, so I'm snookered.

But I learnt a lot about UEFI and GPT disks. Also, because I opted for a dual boot, when I eventually abandoned the plan, all I had to do was delete the partition I had created for Win7 and the system was back to normal.
 
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