I need to switch back to windows 10 from windows 11

If no more than 10 days have passed since you upgraded to Windows 11, and you have made very few modifications to your computer during that time, you can probably roll back to Windows 10, although no one can guarantee that the rollback will be completely successful.

Otherwise you have to do a clean install of Windows 10.

Alternatively, if you made a backup of your hard drive before you upgraded to Windows 11, you can simply restore that backup.

Hi Tim

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If it has been 10 days or less since you upgraded to Windows 10, you can roll your system back.

Open the Settings App, then go to System - Recovery and select 'Go back'

From there, you can revert to Windows 10.

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If it has been more than 10 days since you upgraded to Windows 11, the only option would be to backup your files to a USB drive, then clean install Windows 10 from a bootable USB, and then re-install all your software.

Click this link:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-downlo...

to download the Media Creation Tool (Click on Download Tool Now), with that you can download the latest Windows 10 ISO (Select Create Installation Media for Another PC), you can create a bootable USB flash drive (min 8GB) using that tool

Then, Boot your PC from the Installation Media you just created (change Boot Order in your BIOS) to begin installing Windows 10

Since you previously had Windows 10 installed and activated on that PC during the installation process skip the steps which ask for a product key and select the option 'I am Reinstalling Windows 10 on this PC', and activation will not be an issue, your PC will have a digital entitlement stored on the Microsoft Activation Servers

You can downgrade from Windows 11 to Windows 10 within 10 days using this community guide:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/downgrade-from-windows-11-to-windows-10/84a2416d-ccfb-4d87-9eee-e1056591e91f