How to go back to an earlier build of Windows 10 + Advanced Options

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How to go back to an earlier build of Windows 10

Windows 10 offers you an easy option to revert or go back to an earlier build, if the current installed build is not working for you. If after upgrading your Windows 10 to the recent Build 1511, you find that something is broken or that it isn’t working for you properly, you may go back to your previous build.

Go back to an earlier build of Windows 10

To go back to an earlier build of Windows 10, open Start Menu > Settings > Update & Security > Recovery.

Here you will see Go back to an earlier build section, with a Get started button. Click on it.

The process to revert your Windows 10 back will commence.

You will see a Getting things ready, This wont take long screen. Once the process is completed, your computer will restart and you will be taken back to your old build.

If a period of 30 days has passed after you installed the new build or if you deleted the Windows.old folder, you may not be able to go back. You may instead see a We’re sorry, but you can’t go back, The files we need to take you to a previous version of Windows were removed from this PC message.

If you are unable to boot into Windows, you can also go back to the previous build via Windows 10 Advanced Startup options.

Boot to Advanced Startup Options > Troubleshoot > Advanced options > See more recovery options > Go back to previous build.

Change Boot defaults and Advanced Startup options

If you have a dual boot system, before you log in, you will see the following screen offering you the available operating systems. You can choose the operating system you wish to boot in, or by default you will be booted you into default operating system after 10 seconds.

If you wish to change some of your default boot and login options and settings, you may click on the Change defaults or choose other options link, which you will see towards he bottom.

Change Windows 10 Boot default settings & Advanced Startup options

Once you do this, you will see the following Options screen. Here you can change the Timer settings, set the default operating system to boot into and set other options too.

Clicking on Change the timer, will bring you to the following screen, where you can set the boot timer to 5 seconds, 30 seconds or 5 minutes. This is the time you have to wait, before the default OS is automatically loaded. The default setting here is 10 seconds.

Clicking on Choose a default operating system, will let you set the operating system you want to automatically load, after waiting for the set amount of time. The setting in my case is Windows 10.

Clicking on Choose an option will present you with the following options.

1. You can click on Continue and exit to your default OS
2. You can use another installed operating system
3. you can troubleshoot your PC by opening Advanced Options
4. Or you can Turn Off your PC.

If you need to troubleshoot problems with your Windows computer, you can click on Troubleshoot. When you do this, you are offered:

1. Reset This PC option
2. Advanced options.

If you wish to reset your PC, select Reset the PC option. If you need to access other troubleshooting and repair tools, click on Advanced Options, to arrive at the following screen.

Here you will see:

1. System Restore: Useful if you want to restore your Windows 10 PC.
2. System Image Recovery: Lets you recover your Windows using a system image file.
3. Startup Repair: Fixes startup problems
4. Command Prompt: Using the CMD you can access the more advanced built-in Windows tools
5. Startup Settings: It lets you change Windows startup options
6. Go back to the previous build.

If you wish to directly access these Advanced startup options when working on your Windows 10, you can do so via the Settings app of Windows 10 > Update & Security > Recovery > Advanced startup and click the Restart now button.

Clicking on Startup Settings will let you change the preset startup settings and options.

Here you can:

1. Enable low resolution mode
2. Enable debugging mode
3. Enable boot logging
4. Enable Safe Mode
5. Disable driver signature enforcement
6. Disable early-launch anti-malware protection
7. Disable automatic restart on system failure.

Windows 10 users may want to specially note that this is where you can enable Safe Mode.

Clicking on the Restart button will bring you to the following Startup Settings screen:

You have to press the keys to bring up the options. Clicking on F10 will show you some more options including Launch recovery environment.

Pressing Enter will bring you back to your operating system.

These settings are useful to know as, not only can you change your boot defaults here, but they can also be very useful to you, if your computer will not start or you need to troubleshoot and fix other Windows problems.

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