Check your version of Windows 8 to see if you qualify for downgrade rights. 'Downgrade rights' are designed for businesses and allow you to revert to Windows 7 for free. In order to use the downgrade rights, you'll need to meet a few requirements. The first of these is that you're running Windows 8 Professional. The computer has to have come with Windows 8 Professional installed out of the box.![Laptop Laptop](https://psg.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/154362i3F5A2757A48CEEDF/image-size/original?v=1.0&px=-1)
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How to 'downgrade' to Windows 7 If you're stuck with a Windows 8 Pro PC, there's a good chance you can turn it into a fully functional Windows 7 PC with these tricks. How to 'downgrade' to Windows 7 If you're stuck with a Windows 8 Pro PC, there's a good chance you can turn it into a fully functional Windows 7 PC with these tricks. Consumer versions of Windows 8 Pro that come preinstalled on PCs have downgrade rights to a previous version of Windows (example: Windows 7, Windows Vista). If your copy came pre-installed on your system, you may downgrade your copy to Windows 7. If not you need purchase a copy of Windows 7 and install the same on your computer.
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- Press ⊞ Win and type winver to see the version of Windows you are running. If you are using any version of Windows 8 besides Professional, you don't qualify for downgrade rights. You'll need an unused Windows 7 retail key to downgrade.
- If you upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8 Professional, you do not qualify for downgrade rights. You'll need an unused Windows 7 retail key to downgrade.
- There are no downgrade rights for retail versions of Windows 8. If you installed Windows 8 on a computer that used to have Windows 7 (or other older version), you do not have downgrade rights. You'll need an unused Windows 7 retail key to downgrade.