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I have an old laptop (Lenovo e530), which came witn Windows 7 preinstalled. My new laptop arrived with Windows 10 preinstalled (Lenovo e550). I would like to put Windows 7 on my new laptop, too. Can I somehow "move" the Win 7 licence from an old laptop to an new one? Or do I already have a right to install all previous versions of Windows, once I have Windows 10 on it?

None of laptops has any stickers with serial numbers.

Ivan Kuckir
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Most likely both your laptops came with OEM licenses which are NON-TRANSFERRABLE. Your only real option is to downgrade your Windows 10 OEM license to a Windows 7 license - which probably won't work, and Microsoft certainly won't help you.

You have 3 options:

  1. Try to downgrade to windows 7 and hope that Windows 7 activates per the OEM license baked into the BIOS (it might work!)
  2. Purchase a copy of Windows 7, and install it. (With a purchased copy, Microsoft is happy to support you if you run into problems)
  3. Embrace Windows 10. Windows 7 will be unsupported by 2020 anyway.

EDIT: Check out this document: https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/9/68964284-864d-4a6d-aed9-f2c1f8f23e14/downgrade_rights.pdf

You can downgrade Windows 10 Pro to Windows 7 Pro. Unfortunately not Home. Check your system screen (Windows + Pause keys), do you have Pro or Home?

Joshua Shourds
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