Sooooooo long story short had the typical Ebay OEM key for Win7 Home Premium which was perfectly valid, decided to keygen my way to Win 7 Ultimate (I wanted to change my language setting from my mothertongue to english, as it was sometimes causing issues and generally it's easier for me to have all devices in same language). Got the fake ultimate key, pop it into "Windows Anytime Upgrade".... surprise, it works! PC upgrades OS, everythings fine... except when I go into "about PC" it says "3 days before automatic activation. Activate Windows Now", so I confidently paste the key once again... but this time it responds that the key is not valid, despite having allowed me to make the upgrade before. Alright, time to downgrade then, right? WRONG. Little did I know that downgrading is apparently impossible, and now I completely butchered my favorite OS and my main PC.
So here's my question: what is possible to do now? Obviously Windows 7 is outdated, I know. But it's just so beautiful and easy to use that I cannot part ways from it not mention having had a working key registered to this computer. Is there a workaround to downgrade to Home without losing data? (My C drive is 1TB SSD that is 70% full, I literally have no way to copy it elsewhere, my secondary drive is a mere 500GB HDD that only has 100GB left so not an option to get files onto it either). I also have a few programs that are no longer available and/or I lost the installation files, plus some (SonicStage for my Sony NetMD recorder for instance) that are impossible to install on windows 10 (also my Canon printer driver refused to be installed on my laptop with a preinstalled win10, so that can also be problematic)
Option 2: I have a Windows 10 Ultimate key that SHOULD work (if not, I have a Windows 10 home install DVD, but no key). If there is absolutely no way to get windows 7 working I'd obviously rather have a working PC even if it will be awful to use. How do I perform an upgrade without clean install if that is even possible anymore?
I know, I have brough it on myself, and I fully recognise that I screwed up badly (and illegally), so any help will be much appreciated 人(_ _*)
Best Regards,
Dan
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