Wineows 8 to Windows 7

If your Sony Vaio came with Windows 8 Pro, then you can downgrade to Windows 7 Pro for Free. Just use the same serial number that came with Windows 8 Pro using a full Windows 7 Pro install DVD, but you will have to call Microsoft to activate before 30 days. You can download Windows 7 Pro .iso file if you don't have access to one.

To the OP..
I bought a Vaio Win 8 touch just so I could "learn" the new O/S.
Had 2 laptops on Win 7 that were still working.

Its a learning curve for sure but helps keep my brain cells stagnating..:W
You can always use the classic view that mimics Win 7 pretty close but I find I use the new stuff pretty consistantly now.

One thing I will say, I would not want to use Win 8 on a non-touch screen.

Stick with it and will be no big deal before long.

2 oldman: it looks like it is far more complicated, as I though it would be. I was hoping to put in my Windows 7 disk, and that would be it. I guess I will just continue to grieve foe my Windows 7 system. For the person who asked about "frying" that is the term the tech used. I had a small jar of olives I was snacking on, and when I picked it up it slipped and I had olive juice on my keyboard which leaked to the motherboard. I only know the end result was expensive, and now exasperating dealing with touch and windows 8.

downtheroad wrote:
Just trying to learn...how did you, "fry" the mother board by spilling something on the keyboard...
Is that possible?

Been there done that. Doesn't take much liquid either I spilled less than an ounce of wine. Mother boards die quietly.

The Texan wrote:

downtheroad wrote:
how did you, "fry" the mother board by spilling something on the keyboard...
Is that possible?

On a laptop, all day long.....The motherboard resides under the keyboard and is vulnerable to any spill. Some have a rubber protector under the keyboard, some don't, but even that is not sealed completely.

Thanks Texan...I wasn't think lap-top...:S
What I am thinking is that I need another cup of coffee...

Google windows 8 to windows 7. I was looking yesterday. Apparently you can set up windows classic on windows 8. plus some other free things you can download to stop windows 8 from thinking toooo much. Just like on my smart phone sometimes it thinks too much and is wrong. My smart phone was inserting wrong words into my posts and e-mails. Once I shut down all that stuff it works great. These new computers seem to be geared for the new generation that can't type or spell.

downtheroad wrote:
how did you, "fry" the mother board by spilling something on the keyboard...
Is that possible?

On a laptop, all day long.....The motherboard resides under the keyboard and is vulnerable to any spill. Some have a rubber protector under the keyboard, some don't, but even that is not sealed completely.

Just trying to learn...how did you, "fry" the mother board by spilling something on the keyboard...
Is that possible?