From Vista to Xp
 

Ok so a friend of mine wanted to up load Xp and get rid of his vista. I was going to do it, but was inform that it would not work, something about vista registration on vista :S. I never heard of this, can someone confrom this. Thanks

Re: From Vista to Xp
 

Uhhh...you can do it.

Get a bootable XP disc, install, and get the drivers from the computer manufacturer's website.

Re: From Vista to Xp
 

Whoa up there.

If this is a laptop, be real careful and make sure that model was offered with or can be converted to XP. Mickeysoft gave Vista to some manufacturers for pennies if they agreed to not make XP drivers for some of their proprietary hardware. "Vista Bricks"

Re: From Vista to Xp
 

Ah thats whats it called. This is the one she got; http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...se=&lang=en-US

Re: From Vista to Xp
 

Word.

I've converted 3 HP laptops to xp, and the only driver that didn't work was for the camera they had. Everything else works just fine.

Re: From Vista to Xp
 

bought the $450 dell 1525 at walmart. it dual boots vista ultimate and osx leopard, came with xp

Re: From Vista to Xp
 

I just got a laptop with vista and I kind of like it. I haven't had it do anything that bad yet.

Re: From Vista to Xp
 

turn UAC off and plug in a flash drive for readyboost. vista is as much a leap in stability as xp was to 2k and 2k was from nt4 & win98/me.
everyone that was babbling on and on about drivers are total newbies. they hadn't been around long enough to live through the new OS's. aint a single god damned useful OS ever come out that had a descent base of working drivers in the first year anyway; so why all the new fangled whining ill never know LoL and it starts up with 45+ processes... Trim that down to a cool 30 and its tits.

vista aint bad. it aint the cat's meow, but if you have the ram and 2+ cpu's run it. its that many fewer crashes every month than xp will have for a power user.

best thing about vista is instead of wasting time slipstreaming, you can just create your own 100% ready made OS image that runs out of the box with everything pre-installed. worst case scenario you're 15m away from a re-format that has every program you could possibly install ready to rock. NOT ready to be installed ala xp slipstreaming, but already installed and working. that's huge too! you can't do that in xp :\ just set ---- to install after OS install. that don't do ---- for time savings...
speaking of which for the XP users... best thing you can ever do is slipstream your drivers and burn that ---- on a DVD. Cuts the file transfer portion of the install down to nothing.

Re: From Vista to Xp
 

I have no crashes with XP.

You can't tune with Vista.

Re: From Vista to Xp
 

no tuning with vista sucks.