I hate windows 10

[Kat31]

My notebook is new and was preinstalled with win 10. I want to downgrade to 7. Has anyone done this? Any problems?

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

Kat31

Have to ask, if you dislike Win10 so much, then why did you buy a new laptop with Win10 preinstalled?

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, swtichable 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.

Good Luck

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[Kat31]

Thank you for your informative response. The only computers I could find with win 7 were refurbished. I guess I'll learn to love this one.