Unupgrading Beyond 30 Days

After one or two issues with 10 on my wife's 9+ year old Medion necessitating a forced shutdown I decided to see if I could revert it to 7 even though we are well past the 30 day rollback window. I restored a Macrium Reflect image and everything appears just fine, including a whole stack of May and June updates successfully installed today with Windows update. I had believed your 7/8/8.1 licence got revoked after 30 days but not so it seems - her system is still activated.

 

Did you have a long wait for the search for updates for Windows 7 to complete, or did they complete "normally"? As you may recall, I had to resort to wsus offline update to kick start the update process.

 

I've previously had to resort to wsus too but not on this occasion. I initiated WU from control panel rather than just letting it do its own thing and when I checked an hour or so later everything had installed and it was asking for a reboot. That's very different from how W7 updates have been over the last few months. I can't yet rule out the possibility of being told Win 7 isn't licensed but for the time being everything is just as it was before the upgrade. Win 10 on the other systems here is good and I wouldn't think of reverting any of them.

 

I used a shortcut I had placed on my Desktop.

It shouldn't happen since you used a valid Win 7 key for Win 10.

Of note to me is that Win 8.0 is no longer being supported by MS. The only "updates" available for Win 8 were the Malicious Software Removal Tool and definition updates for Windows Defender — no security updates.

 

She was quite happy with 7, and with 10 too until we got the occasional shutdown issue. I've got 8.1 in dual boot with 10 on this laptop and while personally I quite like 8.1 I doubt she would plodr. Unless we get unexpected issues with 7 I think that's it for the rest of this old Medion's life. It started out as my PC with XP Media Center 2005, then Vista until 7 arrived and it's hardly missed a beat in all that time. Marvellous machine.

 

Apparently, they've changed their mind. I run wsus offline update. As of version 10.3.2, Windows 8 had been relegated to Legacy components. Later versions of wsus don't even offer updates for Windows 8 at all. I run Windows 8 Pro on one of my partitions and for the last two months, the only things available were the malicious software removal tool (like for XP without the POSReady reg key) and a definition update for windows defender — no security updates.

 

15 updates for 8.1 this month, excluding MSO and the GWX update KB3055583

 

I haven't been talking about Win 8.1. I've been talking about Win 8.0.

 

I wasn't correcting you - just offering a bit of additional info.