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by: jason9189 February 19, 2013 1:43 PM PST

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Want to downgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit on

by jason9189 - 2/19/13 1:43 PM

I just got an HP Pavilion G7 2240us in and it has the dreaded Windows 8 on it. I have Windows 7 Pro 64 bit to put on it, but my experience so far with trying to downgrade back to 7 on a few other brands of laptops has been bad so far. I tried this on a Samsung, installing a new 240GB SSHD into a brand new Samsung out of the box notebook, than when I powered it on it would go directly to the BIOS screen without me even pressing F2 and that's it. I could not change the boot settings in the BIOS to put from disc or anything. I thought I would ask on here before running into the same problem with this HP G7 2240us. I have a 480GB Solid state drive along with 8GB of ram to put into this laptop. HP's website has no drivers listed either for Windows 7. What a mess Microsoft has made with this whole "Everyone must love Windows 8" stuff...... Any help would be appreciated! Thanks for reading this over.

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If you install Start8 or Classic Start...

by wpgwpg - 2/19/13 2:00 PM

In Reply to: Want to downgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit on by jason9189

Classic Start or Start8 both take most of the pain out of Windows 8, making it look and feel pretty much like Windows 7. I'm no fan of Windows 8 either, but with Classic Start on my 2 test computers, it's not that bad. There're a lot of reasons why going back to Windows 7 on a laptop made for Windows 8 is not a good idea, so installing Classic Start (which is free) is the lesser of the two evils.

Good luck.


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THANK YOU!!

by jason9189 - 2/19/13 4:35 PM

In Reply to: If you install Start8 or Classic Start... by wpgwpg

That version makes it just like 7! The one I was using kept all the dumb charms on. Thanks again!~


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