Downgrade Windows 8 to Windows 7

Hi all
I bought a Samsung 7 series with Windows 8 installed, I have struggled to download files from forums, movies etc.: I have now been told that built into Windows 8 is a 'reporting to Microsoft' system.
For those reasons I want to get rid of windows 8 install windows 7. are there any stickies on site to explain how its done please.
Regards
junger

Easy to upgrade not so easy to downgrade I am afraid, just back up your media on a usb pen or some sort of external hard-drive and do a fresh install of windows 7.

Reboot your computer and press F2 or F12 etc, what ever gets you into your boot manager, select boot from CD if you have a windows 7 disk or select boot from usb if you want to put a windows 7 ISO on a bootable usb pen.

There is stickies in the PC section on where to download all flavours of windows 7 and make a usb bootable pen , because your running W8, I would recommend W7 Ultimate, and you can use a crack to activate it like Daz Loader. ( PM if you cant find it )

Here is a video of how to Install a new OS, it should keep you on track

check your drivers on samsung web site first to check there are win 7 drivers, and download them prior to any zapping of existing system of your pc, as time goes on some devices will never have xp/win7 drivers etc its as well to check putting win 7 on is a viable option.

junger said:

Hi all
I bought a Samsung 7 series with Windows 8 installed, I have struggled to download files from forums, movies etc.: I have now been told that built into Windows 8 is a 'reporting to Microsoft' system.
For those reasons I want to get rid of windows 8 install windows 7. are there any stickies on site to explain how its done please.
Regards
junger

Click to expand...

You shouldn't listen to hearsay and gossip. The actual issue is the smartscreen, it means that IF they wanted to M$ could retain executable information and tie this to an IP of the requests, but they would need to estimate the software and where/who you are. It's a longstanding feature and has been in place since IE8. Even so it would take a lot of work to tie the file name and it's hash(cryptographic pattern), and MS is highly unlikely to have a Program>hash map.

It's not really a reason not to use it, just turn off the smartscreen filter. It's a bloody nuisance anyway.