downgrading to win 7 pro or home premium

Downgrading to win 7 Pro or Home Premium
location: 7forums.com - date: July 10, 2009
I've been mulling this over for awhile and I'm throwing it out for discussion. We all have been playing with Windows 7 Ultimate for months now regardless of the build. Now when we get our Windows 7 HP or pro 10/22 will it let us downgrade from ultimate to Pro for example or is it really clean install time. We all know what a pain it is rebuilding our systems. Or is upgrading from ultimate to ultimate the ony way to avoid the pain of rebuilding our systems. What are your thoughts? Many Thanks Bob
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HP P2035n (network printer) is printing non-stop instead of a single page after upgrade to Win-7 from Vista Home Premium.
location: microsoft.com - date: November 14, 2009
Does anyone have a solution? I have downloaded the latest driver for Win-7 from HP, still no luck. It was working fine with Vista. Every time I ask to print a test page, the printer prints it and does not stop printing it over and over.
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Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 shows up in Win 7 64-bit Home Premium Devices & Printers but MNouse doesn't connect
location: microsoft.com - date: February 19, 2011
I initially did get my Bluetooth Mouse 5000 to connect to my Sony Vaio VGN FW495J running latest version of Win 7 64-bit Home Premium.  But ' "something happened" (how and why I have no idea) and now it won't work.  I've checked Services and Windows Bluetooth Service and Bluetooth Support Service are Both running (and I also shut them down and recyled them just to double-check), and reconfigured Windows Bluetooth Support Service to use the Local System Account (and B-T-W:  according to Microsoft, that change is supposed to make the "Bluetooth Devices" option show up under "Control Panel", but it does NOT do that:  I have NO "Bluetooth Devices" option Anywhere - I originally got the system to recognize the Mouse
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Cannot connect to HOMEGROUP on Win 10 Pro or Home
location: 8forums.com - date: August 17, 2015
Back in Win 7, I had my wife's Home PC networked to my Pro PC to share files, etc, through 'Homegroup'. I upgraded to Win 10 on both PCs and now cannot send files from one PC to another. I tried to 'join' Homegroup but I cannot remember the original password. If I right-click on Homegroup after double-clicking on 'This PC' I do not have the option that shows me the password even though I am the Administrator. Also, whenever I try to join the Homegroup, I get a message that says Homegroup is not found on my PC. I also do not have the option to create a new Homegroup. What am I missing here? EDIT: One other thing I saw was that the current 'network' displayed is 'Private' and I'm sure that the Win 7 network was 'Local'. How can I
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swap licenses - Win 7 Pro on old 32 bit PC with Home Premium 64 on new PC
location: winsecrets.com - date: October 23, 2011
I've been running Win 7 Pro on an old PC, 32 bit. I have a much newer, faster PC running Win 7 Home Premium. I'd like the new PC to run Pro (64 bit) and the old one Home Premium. No OEM licenses involved here. Can I swap licenses, and if so how? Do I have to reinstall anything?
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Upgrading to 64-bit Win 7 Pro from 32-bit Vista Home Premium?
location: 7forums.com - date: July 5, 2012
Hi all! ***First up, mods - if this is in the wrong sub-forum, please move! I wasn't sure the best place to post up :-) *** Admittedly I feel a little late to the party with Windows 7 (what with 8 being on the horizon) but after several years (!) of plugging away with Vista Home Premium on my laptop (used every day for work), I'm at the point where I need to update it. Don't have the money to replace it outright, and it's also recently had a new HDD and RAM upgrade, so I'm exploring the possibility of finally upgrading to Win 7 (particularly seeing as mainstream support of Vista has now finished). From what I understand, a clean install of Win 7 is probably better than an update over Vista (and I am happy to do a clean install a
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windows 7 home is best or win 7 pro
location: 7forums.com - date: August 3, 2012
hi all can some 1 tell me is win 7 home is best or win 7 pro now a days i m using win 7 pro 32 bit but after updates from Microsoft my wireless card not work so i decided to downgrade to win 7 home can some 1 guide me which windows is best ? my system is Compaq hp NC 6400 2.0 core 2 due 1 GB ram..
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Vista Home Premium to Win 7 Pro In Place Upgrade
location: 7forums.com - date: August 21, 2011
I am going to be upgrading to Win 7 Professional 64bit Upgrade soon (been saying this for over a year). I am upgrading from Vista Home Premium 64bit. I plan on doing an in place upgrade so I don't have to manually reinstall many programs (which I run in specific configurations ect.). I have recently been reading that it is not possible to do an in place upgrade of Win 7 Pro over Vista Home Premium. Is this true? And can someone link me to an updated Digital River .iso with Win 7 Professional 64bit with SP1? Apparently the Digital River site has changed now. Hopefully my almost two year CD key of Win 7 still works. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1360528945348-0'); });
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When downgrading Windows 8 Pro to Windows 7 Pro can I still be using the Win 7 Pro key somewhere else?
location: microsoft.com - date: May 2, 2013
Someone I know wants to buy a laptop with Windows 8 Pro and downgrade it to Windows 7 Pro.
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Win 7 Pro x64 PC can't see NAS; Win 7 Home x32, XP, iMac, Linux can ?
location: 7forums.com - date: December 22, 2011
Hi there, I have what is surely a Win 7 Pro security configuration "problem", but I can't figure out what it is. I've searched this very helpful forum for a day or so and have done things like changing the local security policy option for LAN Manager authentication to LM /NTLM with NTLMv2 "if negotiated", and so on, but still have no luck. My home network has a NAS device, an HP MediaVault MV5150 to be precise, where I store all my documents, pictures, videos and music. I have the files on the NAS publicly shared so there is not supposed to be a need to enter a login/password to see them, basically if you're in my home network you should see the files there. It's assigned the workgroup name MSHOME, whi
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