You can still revert, however, provided you had manually created a system image before upgrading.
The bad news is that there’s a time limit on this method – you only have 30 days from when you first upgraded to decide whether or not you want to go back. Click Get started under this, then follow the prompts to complete the process. You’ll see an option to Go back to Windows 7 (or Windows 8.1, depending on the version you upgraded from). To do this, click Start > Settings > Update & security > Recovery. If you had enough free hard drive space when you upgraded to 10, Windows would have created a special Windows.old file that can be used to roll your PC back to the way it was before you upgraded. It's still possible to do if you created a system image of your own to an external hard drive before you upgraded to Windows 10, but this requires different steps. If you're looking to roll back Windows 10 to your earlier operating system, this won't now be possible by following this process. Update: the July 31st 2016 deadline for upgrading to Windows 10 has now passed, so the latest date that the below process would be possible was 30th August. Go back to your previous version of Windows.What if you upgrade to Windows 10 and then decide you just don’t like it? If you’ve upgraded from Windows 7 or 8.1, then there is a way to roll back to your previous setup and remove Windows 10 altogether, without affecting your files.
Windows.old folder, which contains files that give you the option to Keep in mind that you'll be deleting your For home use or in a small business with less than 10 PCs, you can remove. Settings are where you want them to be in Windows 10, you can safelyĭelete it yourself. starts demanding that you subscribe to a paid-for service after 30 days or so. Need to free up disk space, and you’re confident that your files and Windows will be automatically deleted from your PC. One month after you upgrade to Windows 10, your previous version of Lastly, as mentioned by Microsoft in this article, selecting the option to perform this operation will delete the Windows.old folder and prevent you from being able to rollback\downgrade the update to the previous version of Windows before the machine had installed before you completed the Windows 10 upgrade. You're likely getting this notification if it's been 30 days since you completed the Windows 10 upgrade as also indicated in this article. Just as indicated in the Microsoft post Delete your previous version of Windows, this will delete the "previous version" of Windows you had installed prior to the Windows 10 upgrade.
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