Windows 7 on HP All-in-One - 20-r013il

[premdoshi_india]

Hi Guys,

Today I purchased an 

HP All-in-One - 20-r013il

It comes without any operating system and now since it has only 2GB RAM and I am more comfortable with the old UI of Windows I wanted to install Windows 7 Ultimate edition on it.

However, The instruction manual provided to me talks only about Windows 8, 10.

I just wish to confirm whether Windows 7 can be installed on my All in One?

On the driver site I didn't find drivers for Win 7 for anything but only Windows 8 hence confused.

Please reply at earliest.

[premdoshi_india]

Correction: The model is - 

HP All-in-One - 20-r016il

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

premdoshi_india

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I would strongly advise AGAINST doing the downgrade.

Laptops especially contain specialized hardware for which, for full functionality, specialized drivers are required -- and these come ONLY from the OEM, in this case, HP. Your PC came preinstalled with Windows 10. If you remove or overwrite the original Win10 on your PC with Win 7, you are going to encounter serious problems as there are no HP Win7 drivers for the new hardware that comes with new machines.  

MS supplies drivers that provide only basic functionality.  This means that some of the hardware functionality is likely NOT to work if you force a downgrade.  That includes functions like the touchpad, WiFi, switchable graphics, USB ports -- to name the functions commonly reported here.

If you want full functionality for the machine, you need to retain its original preinstalled OS version.

[premdoshi_india]

It came pre loaded with DOS not WIn 10.

[premdoshi_india]

Thanks for your asnwer, updated to Windows 10 and happy 🙂