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How to downgrade Windows 8.1 to Windows 7 Pro

What's the best and easiest way to downgrade an already running laptop with applications installed and data on it to Windows 7 Pro ?
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If you do go with Windows 10, you should be aware of its new peer-to-peer updating feature called Windows Update Delivery Optimization (WUDO). Here's an EE article that explains how to disable it:
Windows 10 uses YOUR computer to help distribute itself

Neither W7 nor W8.1 has it — just W10. Regards, Joe