• Save the Win7 rollback for more than 30 days

    Posted on July 15, 2016 at 08:21 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Interesting question from BG:

    I support Windows users, and must know about Windows 10 functionality. Yet, I am skeptical of Microsoft’s  process for the upgrade, and know it will take at least a few weeks to isolate areas of concern with Windows 10.

    And by then, it may be too late to do anything about it under the Microsoft allowance of only 30 days’ option to revert to the original Windows.

    So, I plan to keep a currently-functional and trouble-free, Windows updatable, Windows 7 Professional volume imaged on the side (in a USB external HD backup image), so that I can revert to working in Windows 7 if the Windows 10 upgrade disgusts me after 30 days.

    Basically, my concern is Microsoft plans to convert all Windows machines into parts of its corporate network. Not literally, but virtually– any information Microsoft wants, it can obtain (subject to restrictions it allows). That is not good for privacy, and toxic to users who want absolute control over their own computers.

    In view of the fact Microsoft may have my computer’s hardware registered as a Windows 10 user after 30 days’ of installation, is my plan of restoring my original Windows 7 volume to the same machine (or to another machine) even technically viable?

    As far as I know, you shouldn’t have any problem installing a Win7 image on a Win10 machine, as long as you don’t change the hardware on the machine, or install any new programs.

    Not sure  how you’ll keep an image of Win7 going, but what the heck. It’s probably just easier to create one image, now, and keep your data someplace you can get at it. Then if you decide to move back to Win7, restore the old image, apply all updates, re-install the apps, and pull your data back.
    Anybody have any reason to believe differently? I think the Win7 license will continue to work on the machine indefinitely….
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