Received an e-mail from HP indicating that they are AGAIN shipping several of their computers pre-loaded with Windows 7 instead of Windows 8!!! This appears to be tacit admission that Windows 8 SUCKS!
I bought a HP Envy 700-027c back in Aug. and HATE Winows 8 and have tried to downgrade to Windows 7. I have a "virgin" HD that I used to load Win 7, but there are no drivers for any of the hardware!!! Even with the Windows 8 drivers I did manage to find would give me an error message. And I couldn't locate any Windows 7 drivers for my hardware.
I called HP Customer Support, but they wanted to pass me on the their "Primium" (i.e. pay to play) group. Since I consider HP digressing back to Win7 as an admission of Win 8 failure, there should be a viable and no cost way for us to downgrade!!! I have a copy of Windows 7 Pro that I would like to use.
Anyone???