Windows released its latest version of windows 8 and now it also released its updated version 8.1. When Windows 8 released many users find its difficult to handle the next and next generation upgrades. You can find someone near you still windows xp for it impact in the computer users at that time. They find it more useful and they not ready to upgrade to the latest version.

Steps to be Noted While Downgrading Windows

* Windows or any operating system does not support downgrading

* If you have a copy of windows with you and when you try to install it

* A error message will pop up say it won't support downgrade

* You want to do a clean install

* Make sure you copied or moved your data's form c drive to another

* If you have a recovery version of windows use it

* You can also install windows as fresh install by using USB drive

* If you bought the laptop with windows 8 operating system

* You can't downgrade your operating system 

* As the laptops with windows 8 as inbuilt operating system will have the boot lock in it

* When you try to downgrade in it, it wont support 

Alternate options

* Windows released its latest updates for windows 8 as windows 8.1

* It is much easier and with lot of improvements

* You can notice the changes in all the apps and appearance in 8.1

* There is improvement in store too

* Much awaited start button is back in window 8.1

* It will suggest you to update it to windows 8.1 rather than downgrading

Hope this information might be useful in finding information about downgrading or updating your windows 8 and this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

The Answer will be of course Yes, if your Laptop Processor and Hardware are merely full-fill the following conditions. 

At least 1 Gigahertz (GHz) or Faster Processor.

Your RAM must be 1 Giga Byte (GB) for 32bit OS or 2 Giga Byte (GB) for 64bit OS.

Your laptop hardisk must have not less than 16 GB available hard disk space for 32-bit OS or 20 GB for 64-bit OS.

Must have DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver.

If any one of the above mentioned Configurations failure or doesn’t follow will give rise to the answer No, which is incompatible for Windows 7 OS irrespective of neither 32bit OS nor 64bit OS.

Need for formatting a Laptop prompts when we want to install a new OS or even if a lot of Virus Attacked in a Laptops particular drive. But do you confuse yourself formatting easy or could cause some vulnerable to your Laptop. Sure if you do some mistakes it may lead you to worry more lately.

But at the same time if you follow given below procedures it’s pretty simple.

Step 1: Back up your data, if you want to save any of the data on the disk, back it up by copying it to a CD or another hard drive like pen drive. Since Formatting will destroy ALL of the data on the disk

Step 2: Click on Start Button

Step 3: Click on Control Panel Button

Step 4: Click on System and Security

Step 5: Now click on Administrative Tools.

Step 6: Follow your click on Computer Management

Here you need to enter your password if it prompts you!

Step 7: Then Click on Disk Management, located under Storage

Step 8: Now Right Click the drive you wanted to Format

Step 9: Just click on Format

Step 10: Now just simply follow the prompts.

Now hope you feel formatting is very easy without errors.