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Re:Windows 10 upgrade installing automatically on some Windo... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday October 16, 2015 @05:22PM (#10402086)
> Yes. You can downgrade Windows 10 to whatever you installed it on top of. I think this has been possible since the Vista -> 7 upgrade.

It's been possible with every version of Windows, I believe. Windows 95 would rename your old Windows directory. And earlier versions didn't try to control the hard drive, as they weren't your OS - though 95 didn't try to own it fully, it lacked a My Documents directory and expected you to make your own root directory folders to store file!

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Re:Windows 10 upgrade installing automatically on some Windo... by mappu on Friday October 16, 2015 @05:48PM (#10402219)
The SR2 update for Windows 95 introduced a My Documents folder (along with FAT32 support).

Wasn't it possible to store user files in C:/Windows/Profiles/{username}/ , too ?

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Re:Windows 10 upgrade installing automatically on some Windo... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday October 16, 2015 @05:59PM (#10402274)
> The SR2 update for Windows 95 introduced a My Documents folder (along with FAT32 support).

OSR2 did indeed do that, but it was a later addition. And Windows NT 4 never got My Documents.

> Wasn't it possible to store user files in C:/Windows/Profiles/{username}/ , too ?

I think so, but I don't know if the OS really especially encouraged you to store things there.

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