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Update #72 ...

 

> Should I downgrade my OS back to Windows 7? 

 

Yes, if you:

 

1. have the "installer" for the originally-shipped Operating System (Windows 7) -- either one USB memory-stick or a few DVD disks;

 

2. purchase a new disk-drive, and install Windows 7 onto it -- deliberately not "touching" anything on your current disk-drive, just in case the installation of Windows 7 does not go well, or if the performance of FIFA14 is no better under Windows 7;

 

3. put the current disk-drive aside until January 2020 (2.5 years away), when Windows 7 achieves its "sunset" -- no more security-updates after that time. You can reconnect the current disk-drive (containing Windows 10) at that time;

 

4. realize that you have a "digital entitlement" to reinstall Windows 10 at no cost to you, at any date;

 

Device-drivers for Windows 7: https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-pavilion-g7-1200-notebook-pc-series/5145712/mode...

Some of the device-drivers will be included with that "installer", but some of the device-drivers on this web-site will be newer/better than the ones included with that "installer".

 

 

Have you thought about installing some "virtual PC" software, to create a "virtual machine", and installing Windows 7 into that virtual machine, to see if FIFA14 under a "virtual" Windows 7 environment is any faster?

 

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Have you thought about installing some "virtual PC" software, to create a "virtual machine", and installing Windows 7 into that virtual machine, to see if FIFA14 under a "virtual" Windows 7 environment is any faster?
 First of all
What's a virtual pc software
And how can I install Windows 7 to it?
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Hello sir..
Please I just bought a Windows 7 disc..
How can I install it without loosing my files and programs?

I don't have an external hard drive to backup
Is there any other way?
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Hello!!!
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Update #77

 

> Hello!!!

 

Find what the initials 'A.F.K.' stand for.  :Wink:

Some of us have a life (and a wife) when not banging on a keyboard.

 

> Please I just bought a Windows 7 disc. How can I install it without losing my files and programs?

> I don't have an external hard drive to backup. Is there any other way? 

 

1. Remove your current disk-drive, and it will become a "backup" of your files.

But, before you do, run a Google-search for "migrate applications to new computer free".

There are free programs that claim to be able to "migrate" your applications to a new computer.

  

2. Buy a new disk-drive (probably faster and probably greater capacity and definitely with a warranty).

  

3. Install Windows onto it.

 

4. Install anti-virus software, and update it. 

 

5. Finish the "migration" of your applications. Let the anti-virus software scan each file as it is being imported.

  

6. Reconnect the "old" disk-drive.  Copy all the files from "old" to "new", and let the anti-virus software scan each file as it is being copied.

 

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