short version: (best I can )
I cannot use anything newer than win7 to run 90% of my work and office machines and/or software.
I've been using XP forever, just recently found a pop email program that will work on win7, that was one big hurdle.
Next hurdle is, the good win7 I had committed suicide immediately after morphing it into place of my 999% completely useless win8 (the 1% use came from running an XP virtual machine, but that was short lived)
I'm now using a laptop win7 Ultimate 32 bit with only a 2-core/4-gig setup, which isn't enough horsepower.
SO- I have the win8, which is an HP Pavillion 500, 4 core, 8-gig setup with a 1T hard drive. I've removed everything of importance off of it, and I'm ready to reformat the drive and install win7 on the thing.
So I go to the HP website, and not only do they not have downloadable drivers for a win7 OS, they don't have any for the win8 that it came with---!?!
And I'm also reading MS has 'fixed' the BIOS in many machines to NOT let users fully free up drive space even during a format, so as to prevent the installation of a backwards OS... I've disliked MS for years, but who do they think they are, sabotaging computers before they're ever sold? --and I don't have much good to say about HP either...
So this is basically just a rant, unless someone can share with me any info on the BIOS situation and maybe someplace online to get the drivers I'll need if I try reformatting and installing win7 on what is proving to be nothing more than a $500 square soupcan useful only as target practice...