One of the features Windows 10 offers is the option to roll back to your earlier OS installation if, for some reason, you either don’t like or have compatibility issues with Windows 10. While this isn’t an option that many people take, it’s going to be important if you find out that a certain software package doesn’t work correctly with the operating system. One reader, for example, pointed out today that he’s going to need to fall back to Windows 8.1 until SolidWorks adds support for Windows 10, which isn’t currently expected until mid-October.Remember, however, that you’ve got just 30 days to jump back — after that point, Windows 10 will no longer offer the option to fall back to the older version.



If you’ve jumped to Windows 10 and find yourself encountering bugs or other problems, it may be wiser to downgrade immediately rather than waiting to see if patches are available before the timer runs out. This may be true, even if the software company in question has promised to deliver a patch update within the next month. Despite the best efforts of software companies, such patches can fail or get bogged down in hardware testing, and you won’t want to have a critical component of your workflow broken because a timer ran out.



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