Timeline for Downgrade Windows 11 to Windows 10 (starting from Windows 11)?
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| Dec 6, 2023 at 21:07 | comment | added | luttztfz | Please report back once you're managed to run Windows 10. Would be interesting if this really did the trick with your OneDrive Explorer folder access time issue. | |
| Nov 17, 2023 at 16:40 | comment | added | Xonatron | I will try it out when I return home next week and let everyone know if it works for me... with details! I appreciate both of your help. | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 13:39 | comment | added | Ramhound | We will have to agree to disagree. All evidence points to the fact they Windows 10 and Windows 11 are licensed separately. Dreamspark is an exception not generality rule. | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 13:31 | comment | added | Tom Yan |
@Ramhound The fun truth is, because "Windows 10 licenses" can be used to activate Windows 11, you can't even be sure whether your device comes with a "Windows 11 (only) license" (even if there is such a thing). Certainly there are devices that come with a sticker, but can anyone even be sure if stickers and licenses have a 1-to-1 relationship? Of course it takes less than 20 minutes to try installing Windows 10 on a OEM Windows 11 device. That's my point -- let's not persuade anyone with such need not to TIAS :)
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| Nov 16, 2023 at 13:24 | comment | added | Ramhound | @TomYan - I could be wrong but my understanding the only free upgrade being offered is Windows 10 to Windows 11 and Windows 10 licenses are no longer being sold which would suggest that Windows 11 keys are NOT compatible with Windows 10. Of course it takes less than 20 minutes to try installing Windows 10 on a OEM Windows 11 device. I don’t have one | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 5:21 | comment | added | Tom Yan | @Ramhound another "evidence" that DreamSpark/Imagine "reflects" how MS "group" licenses in general is that it offers different keys for the different versions of Windows Server. It also offers a different key for the Win10/11 N option set. (So the reason it offers one same key for the same edition set of Win10/11 is unlikely that it doesn't want to offer too many free keys to uni students, but perhaps, there was never such thing as "Win11-only" license behind the scene) | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 5:05 | comment | added | Tom Yan | @Ramhound I think unless you literally failed to have Windows 10 activated with some so-to-speak Windows 11 device/license, otherwise there's literally no point in trying to make it sound like the downgrade is impossible. Btw, recently I got Education license key from DreamSpark/Imagine. (Not KMS key whatsover.) Microsoft literally offered me one same key in both Win10 and Win11 options. Besides, why would it even bother to "differentiate" "Win11-only license" when it never appeared to have to make Win 10 licenses "Win10-only"? | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 4:18 | comment | added | Ramhound | You do not have a Windows 10 license. As I explained in my first comment on Nov 8th. I see nothing that indicates that Microsoft offers downgrade rights to Windows 10 if you have a Windows 11 device. | |
| Nov 15, 2023 at 22:18 | history | edited | Xonatron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added clarification that I am not stuck installing Windows 10
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| Nov 15, 2023 at 22:16 | comment | added | Xonatron | @Ramhound, I am not stuck on any part. I have a device that came with Windows 11. Thanks for your answer. I'll see if I can clarify your point in my question above. | |
| Nov 14, 2023 at 18:30 | comment | added | Ramhound | @Xonatron - You have not specified what part of the process of installing Windows 10 you are stuck on, if you have a device that came with Windows 11, then it does NOT have a license to Windows 10. | |
| Nov 14, 2023 at 18:27 | answer | added | woashi | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 9, 2023 at 15:14 | history | edited | Xonatron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added more clarification re: OneDrive
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| Nov 9, 2023 at 15:12 | comment | added | Xonatron | Why the downvote? Let me know how to fix the question instead of being silently critical without helping! | |
| Nov 9, 2023 at 15:12 | comment | added | Xonatron | Tom and Richie, it's OneDrive making it slow... which is also on my Windows 10 machine. There is no networking happening on either. | |
| Nov 8, 2023 at 8:23 | comment | added | spikey_richie | Are you using OneDrive or some other cloud storage on the new machine? Do you have a Quick Access link which is to a network share/path somewhere other than on the local machine? | |
| Nov 8, 2023 at 5:18 | comment | added | Tom Yan | 10+ seconds? Either Windows 11 really happen to have some serious bug that caused it on your machine particularly, or more likely, it's not really about 10 vs 11. | |
| Nov 8, 2023 at 4:09 | comment | added | Ramhound | Only Windows 10 licenses can activate Windows 11, Windows 11 licenses cannot activate Windows 10, you might or might not have downgrade rights that varies between OEMs and regions. | |
| Nov 8, 2023 at 3:50 | history | asked | Xonatron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |