Need To Help My Mother Downgrade From W 11 To W 10 But I'm Not Sure...

Good day,


My mother recently purchased a new Dell Laptop with Windows 11 pre-installed and would like to downgrade to Windows 10. I think that all I have to do is create a Windows 10 installation media on a usb and perform a clean install but I don't have a Windows 10 license. I'm not sure what to do. Below is the system info for my mother's laptop. The reason she wishes to downgrade is because she really enjoyed using 10 on another laptop she used to own. I don't want to screw up her computer so I'm hoping that you guys might be able to help me.

Sincerely,
Peppercrunch



OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Home
Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DESKTOP-SP0M7LH
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Inspiron 15 3520
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU 0BB2
Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz, 2419 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 1.18.0, 2023-08-10
SMBIOS Version 3.2
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer Dell Inc.
BaseBoard Product 0KRFDG
BaseBoard Version A00
Platform Role Mobile
Secure Boot State On
PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.22621.1413"
User Name DESKTOP-SP0M7LH\Obliv
Time Zone Atlantic Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.73 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.23 GB
Total Virtual Memory 15.2 GB
Available Virtual Memory 7.04 GB
Page File Space 7.50 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection On
Virtualization-based security Running
Virtualization-based security Required Security Properties
Virtualization-based security Available Security Properties Base Virtualization Support, Secure Boot, DMA Protection, UEFI Code Readonly, SMM Security Mitigations 1.0, Mode Based Execution Control, APIC Virtualization
Virtualization-based security Services Configured Hypervisor enforced Code Integrity
Virtualization-based security Services Running Hypervisor enforced Code Integrity
Windows Defender Application Control policy Enforced
Windows Defender Application Control user mode policy Audit
Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View
A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.


I forgot add this link. It talks about downgrading before and after 10 days of purchase?

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-downgrade-from-windows-11-to-windows-10/[/URL]

Bree said:

You should also back up the drivers now, in case you need to reinstall them for Windows 10.

Backup and Restore Device Drivers in Windows 10

What I like to do is use Microsoft's Media Creation Tool with a 32 GB USB flash drive to create the Windows installation drive. Then I create a folder on the same USB flash drive called Drivers. Then use the above tutorial to backup the existing drivers from the factory Windows 11 installation to the Drivers folder.

One thing, in particular, to watch out for is that many new computers, especially laptops, require the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver to be loaded during setup in order to see the drive to install Windows to. Using the above procedure will also capture the needed IRST driver so that it can be loaded from the same USB flash drive when needed during the clean install process.

Here is where to get Microsoft's Media Creation Tool:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10

Also, as Bree stated, you won't need a product key, the same edition of Windows 10 will activate on that computer and you probably won't even be asked for a product key nor which edition you want to install because the product key is most likely stored in "BIOS" (it's actually UEFI firmware).