Restore Old Windows Version

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Restore old windows version.

After upgrading from an old version of windows to another you have a windows old folder automatically created on your computer. To proceed select your version of windows and follow the steps. If you were running an earlier version of windows 10 or windows 7 8 1 then you can use this option to uninstall the current version of windows 10 and restore your previous version of windows without losing your earlier version s applications documents photos and other personal files. This action helps fix poor performance or software errors and does not erase any of your data like pictures or music.

The previous versions feature in windows 10 allows you to restore a previous version of files folders and drives that were saved or backed up as part of a restore point file history and or windows backup. In this article i will operate on my desktop folder located at c users winaero desktop. To restore previous versions of files in windows 10 do the following. Navigate to the file or folder whose previous version you would like to restore.

You must backup and restore or transfer your files to the previous operating system. Important if the windows old folder does not exist you cannot follow the steps in this article to restore the previous windows installation to this computer. If you re having problems with your pc the following table can help you decide which recovery option to use. Windows 7 will determine the size of the folder after several seconds.

If you do not like the new windows version you can restore from windows old folder. The main purpose of this folder is to store all the data of the previous version of windows and if you don t like the new version you can restore windows old windows 10 folder to go back to the older version. I prefer windows 10 the old versions. If you can t find a file on your computer or you accidently modified or deleted a file you can try to restore it from a previous version.

However if you need to free up disk space and you re confident that your files and settings are where you want them to be in windows 10 you can safely delete it yourself. When you upgrade to windows 10 from any other older version of windows a windows old folder is created in your new version. Windows 10 ten days after you upgrade to windows 10 your previous version of windows will be automatically deleted from your pc. So today my laptop forced me to update to fall s creators update i was in windows 10 anniversary before the update.

However it may delete settings or drivers implemented after the restore point was created. Then before i remember updating to creator s update and it sucks so i went back to anniversary without a problem but then when i update to falls creator s and went back to anniversary the os broke and i have to reinstall windows.