OT: Vista back to XP possible? If so, how?

OT: Vista back to XP possible? If so, how?

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OT: Vista back to XP possible? If so, how? Waldo Lydecker 03-31-2007
Posted by Vanguard on April 1, 2007, 10:07 pm
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> Waldo Lydecker, 3/31/2007,8:41:18 PM, wrote:
>
>> Is there a way I can go back to XP from Vista? My machine came with
>> XP, I then got a Vista upgrade disk in the mail and installed it. How
>> cam I go back to XP? Thanks.
>
> What exactly don't you like about Vista? I don't have it myself but I
> was wondering what your objection to it is.


Probably too much a pig on resources for his old hardware. Not everyone
wants to buy new hardware just because an OS vendor wants to push out a
new version.


Posted by badgolferman on April 1, 2007, 10:09 pm
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Vanguard, 4/1/2007,10:07:59 PM, wrote:

> > Waldo Lydecker, 3/31/2007,8:41:18 PM, wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a way I can go back to XP from Vista? My machine came
> > > with XP, I then got a Vista upgrade disk in the mail and
> > > installed it. How cam I go back to XP? Thanks.
> >
> > What exactly don't you like about Vista? I don't have it myself
> > but I was wondering what your objection to it is.
>
>
> Probably too much a pig on resources for his old hardware. Not
> everyone wants to buy new hardware just because an OS vendor wants to
> push out a new version.

If his machine was preloaded with XP and he got an upgrade disc in the
mail that tells me his machine was Vista-ready but installed with XP
until Vista became available. I suspect his machine is perfectly
capable of running Vista.

Posted by Heather on April 1, 2007, 10:41 pm
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> Vanguard, 4/1/2007,10:07:59 PM, wrote:
>
>> > Waldo Lydecker, 3/31/2007,8:41:18 PM, wrote:
>> >
>> > > Is there a way I can go back to XP from Vista? My machine came
>> > > with XP, I then got a Vista upgrade disk in the mail and
>> > > installed it. How cam I go back to XP? Thanks.
>> >
>> > What exactly don't you like about Vista? I don't have it myself
>> > but I was wondering what your objection to it is.
>>
>>
>> Probably too much a pig on resources for his old hardware. Not
>> everyone wants to buy new hardware just because an OS vendor wants to
>> push out a new version.
>
> If his machine was preloaded with XP and he got an upgrade disc in the
> mail that tells me his machine was Vista-ready but installed with XP
> until Vista became available. I suspect his machine is perfectly
> capable of running Vista.

However, (and I haven't paid much attention to this because I have
absolutely no intention of updating to Vista)......a lot of the programs
he presently has on XP do not have drivers that will work with Vista.

And as with any new operating system, I would give it at least 6 months
to get some of the major bugs ironed out and when Vista's SP1 comes out,
that would be when I would think about it. Quite happy with XP though.

Heather



Posted by (PeteCresswell) on April 2, 2007, 6:58 pm
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Per Vanguard:
>Probably too much a pig on resources for his old hardware.

"Intel givith.
Microsoft taketh away."
--
PeteCresswell

Posted by Jim on April 6, 2007, 10:53 am
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There may a secondary partition that contains the original backup software
that can be written to CD. My wife has an HP that I made the backup CD's
for and told her not to lose them. She then promptly lost them and we had
to call HP. They didn't have the disks in stock but were happy to pawn us
off on a company that had the CD's at $29.95.


> Is there a way I can go back to XP from Vista? My machine came with
> XP, I then got a Vista upgrade disk in the mail and installed it. How
> cam I go back to XP? Thanks.


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