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i was having active windows 10 home then they tell me to update and i updated to windows 11 but i dont wanna windows 11 i wanna get back my old active windows 10 home code , i try go back an eariler build but doest work so help me to get my old active code 

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Hi:

 

See if you can use the HP cloud recovery tool to create a bootable USB recovery drive that will reinstall W10, the drivers and the software that originally came with the notebook.

 

Here is an info link for how to use the utility.  You will also need a 32 GB USB flash drive to create the recovery media with.

 

HP Consumer PCs - Using the HP Cloud Recovery Tool in Windows 11 and 10 | HP® Customer Support

 

If your notebook is not supported by the HP cloud recovery tool, you can also use the Microsoft media creation tool to create a bootable W10 installation flash drive and clean install W10.  Make the 64-bit installation media.

 

Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

 

Boot from the installation media and when you get to the part of the installation that asks, 'Where do you want to install Windows,' delete every partition on the hard drive, leaving just one partition of unallocated space.

 

Click next and W10 will install.

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