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.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Recovery and backup

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  1. 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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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-11T17:07:40+00:00

    The 24H2 update killed all my networking. Wired and wireless down.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-26T07:15:49+00:00

    https://download.microsoft.com/download/e/c/d/ecd532eb-bed0-465a-9b7a-330066bec3ce/MediaCreationTool_Win11_23h2.exe

    Perform in place repair. When you click on the link a media creation tool will be downloaded you just have to run the that file. Create USB or ISO file and copy to DVD

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-08T00:19:28+00:00

    Since my first PC, back in the CP/M and DOS and especially with Windows of all versions and other platforms, like Android, I have always kept everything up to date and the latest versions.

    I've had a few issues with an update or two, but always something that was easily fixed or that the OS company fixed immediately.

    It is almost 3 months since Microsoft unleashed this update that completely stops the efficient use of Edge or Chrome. Done.. Cannot use the mouse.

    The system that was screwed up was a laptop with a touch screen, so barely usable by this vision-impairs person with no depth perception.

    So after searching the MS site for DAYS and having a tech work on my computer (TELLING ME IT WAS FIXED WHEN IT WAS NOT*), I asked Gemini.

    Gemini and I had a discussion and it told me how to remove the update, which I did.

    I rely on MS systems to run my business and have never seen something that just stops the use of the computer like this over decades of using MS.

    So now what??? Is the next update going to wreck this all again? Will MS fix it? They ACT LIKE THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS ISSUE BEFORE!!!

    * About a year ago, the only way I could get help with a Teams problame was to get ripped off by paying a support cost of $499 for 2 years. So far with that Teams issue, they worked on my system remotely and said it was fixed, but it never was fixed. Finally, after removing Teams namually off the system and resetting several drivers, the camera and mic now work. But for $499 they had NO CLUE, just doing the same things that I had already done.
    Two small issues came up and they douln't fix those either. MS operatiing system with MS peripherals. UH? DID YOU TRY THIS???

    Now this. After 1 hour, they said, OK, it's fixed and gone. NO IT IS NOT FIXED UNTIL GEMINI TOLD ME HOW TO ROLL IT BACK.

    But no one at MS give a single ****. Once Google has a real OS, I am never looking back this way.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-16T02:22:08+00:00

    i just started having this problem today after i updated did you get any fix?

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