# Can I undo my upgrade to 8.1?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-undo-my-upgrade-to-8-1/710313>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 19, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-undo-my-upgrade-to-8-1/710313 "2015-01-19T21:10:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-undo-my-upgrade-to-8-1/710313/21 "2015-01-22T15:04:14Z")

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Did you check to see if you have any updates left? Driver updates are usually optional so they would not happen automatically alongside the OS version update.

Search for “Windows Update” on your computer and see if it says anything about “optional updates” and then click on that sentence, and then check all the boxes next to the optional updates (except for stuff like the Bing Toolbar or whatever) and run the updates.

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**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-undo-my-upgrade-to-8-1/710313/22 "2015-01-22T17:03:59Z")

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Nah, I’ve installed every update they list. I hate this goddamned machine, Microsoft, and everybody who looks like them.

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