Can I downgrade the operating system on my HP Victus running Windows 11?

[daadnie]

Can I downgrade the operating system on my HP Victus running Windows 11 if HP doesn't have the drivers for Windows 10?. I just bought an HP Victus 15, and I want to downgrade it to Windows 10, or maybe dual-boot it to have both systems at the same time, but I feel like I'm taking a bit of a risk, since I realized there aren't any official drivers for Windows 10 on the HP website (for this laptop). Is it advisable to do it?.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You are taking a fairly big risk installing W10 because there are some devices that may not work on W10 such as the audio and touchpad, since no W10 drivers exist for those items.

The W11 drivers may or may not work.  There's no telling.

So, before you do anything, make a system image so in case you aren't able to get W10 to work right you can restore the system image.

Also, W10 goes out of extended support in October of this year.

[daadnie]

I understand, but I saw in an HP article that if I can't find the drivers, I should look for them directly from the developer of each component. Alternatively, I can do it by creating a driver backup, copying them from Windows 11 to Windows 10 using this cmd:

DISM /online /export-driver /destination:C:\DriverBackup

Would it be possible for them not to be detected if I do it this way?. 

I mean, is there a possibility that both systems, having the same (x64 architecture), won't have any problems?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You can try that, but you better have a backup plan because I highly doubt everything is going to work on W10.

[daadnie]

I was able to install Windows 10 using the command prompt method I showed you, and everything works perfectly. However, some audio component drivers are outdated, and Microsoft is the manufacturer; in Windows 11 they were from 2024, and here they turn out to be from 2019. Otherwise, everything works fine.

Sorry if the interface is in spanish.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

That is great news you were able to get everything to work in W10.

I don't see any devices that need drivers.

Since the audio is working, I would not try and update the drivers.

[daadnie]

Yes, it's just that small difference, but otherwise it's as if the laptop hasn't been modified at all.