Hello,

I have a Lenovo Legion Slim 7i (some specs: Ryzen 9 5900 HX, NVIDIA 3050 TI, 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD) and which also came with windows 10 out of the box, things were going pretty smooth until I downloaded windows 11 and started facing some issues related to the display and sound drivers and just how everything worked in general in terms of smoothness etc…

I’m not saying that the problems are solely because of Windows 11, however, I feel like I need to revert back to windows 10 because I like it, and second because I “feel” like windows 11 just isn’t compatible with my hardware (not in the sense that it’s not enough but in the sense that the combination of hardware that I have may not be suitable to run Windows 11 smoothly).

My Question is the following: If I format my Hard Drive and perform a clean installation form a USB drive, do I have to buy an activation key or does windows use the OEM/digital entitlement to verify that I already had windows 10?

Second Question: Do you think there’s a better solution than formatting according to what you’ve just read?

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