You're very welcome, Joseph.
I have not heard of anyone informing me that after they installed W7 using the drivers I posted, it didn't work.
The only thing you need to do to the PC to install W7, is to go into the BIOS, and enable the Legacy Mode setting and disable Secure Boot, as secure boot is not compatible with W7.
It is perfectly legal to install W7 on the PC as long as you have a legitimate product key.
If you install W7, any warranty support for software is out the window. If you need to troubleshoot a software issue, HP will make you reinstall W8 on the PC.
There should be no additional costs to install W7 other than the software itself.
If you already have W7 and a product key then installing W7 will not incur any additional costs.
If you need to buy W7...
You can buy an OEM version of W7 Home Premium for about $100.00 or a retail version for about $200.00.
The difference between the OEM and retail versions:
OEM can only be used on the one PC and can never be transferred to another PC
Retail can only be used on the one PC but can be transferred to another PC as many times as you want as long as you remove the software from the other PC before installing on a new PC.
The only thing you would lose is any software that is currently on the PC.
There should be a SWSetup folder on the C:\ drive. You can copy that folder to a portable hard drive and that will contain all of the program installation files for the other programs that came with your PC.
Whether or not they will all work on W7, I can't say. Most of them should though.
If the PC has Office 2010 Starter on it, that will be lost forever and is not on any recovery disk or partition.
