How to downgrade from Windows 11 24H2 to 23H2 without losing any data

Anonymous
2024-10-30T13:25:39+00:00

I upgraded my laptop to Windows 11 24H2 since October 4 2024 using it's installation assistant, but after nearly a month of using it, I've ran into having bugs, issues and slow Windows startup speeds.

I can't stand with bugs on 24H2 anymore, so my last option is to probably roll back to Windows 11 23H2, but the "rollback option" was greyed out for over 10 days.

Is it possible to downgrade to Windows 11 23H2 without losing any data? Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-15T13:02:09+00:00

    I just want to express how much I hate Microsoft for this 24H2 nonsense. This update has broken so many of my apps. They crash when I try to use them. No, turning off the Auto HDR does not help. No, I do not have an "old" folder because Windows deleted it. No, I do not have a previous recovery point that I can restore to because for some stupid reason Windows does not auto create those anymore. Not a single one of your "solved" threads has provided any actual solution to this complete garbage of an update. The only option I am left with is doing a clean install, meaning I have to backup 1.5TB of vital files, and lose all of my apps and saved information.

    I will tell you this: If the ONLY option is a clean install, it's going to be a clean install of Linux.

    Good job, Microsoft team.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-05T07:56:19+00:00

    MICROSOFT should be the one that fixes this problem with 24H2 Update since you forced us to do that update and then the entire reason we use a pc is data processing via Virtualbox and we shouldn't have to work for hours and days to fix a MICROSOFT error.

    That Device Security should NEVER be forced on the users and they should make this OS so that if a new user wants to turn on that security or turn off Hyper-V or Virtualization then they turn it off in the BIOS and let us actually use this OS without all of this torture via a Windows 11 update and we NEVER had this problem with earlier versions of Window and I have ran all of them since I was in Redmond WA for a few decades before that Microsoft building was here 42 years ago.

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