you have to buy the program to download it
Yeah, I switched from Vista back to XP. You just need a copy of XP to do that.
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My laptop came with Vista pre-installed too. I’m not entirely sure how I went about switching… lol
Basically I switched to Linux (openSuSE) first. Just formatted the entire harddrive with the Linux installer. That particular Linux distro didn’t work out well for me, so I… acquired XP pro educational (not getting into details there). The XP installer had no problem with formatting and installing over the Linux partition. After that, XP ran perfectly, until I decided that I didn’t particularly care for Microsoft products anymore (because of Vista), and installed Ubuntu instead.
Anyway, if you can format the harddrive, the computer should be able to accept the XP disk.
Call Microsoft, they will send you what you need to reprogram your laptop back to XP and its free. Also I have 3 computers wich run VISTA 32 bit, im a visual effects artist so i need a good operating system. I liked XP but so far Vista has not let me down YET, ive had it for a year. Good luck on the downgrade!
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2edeeze wrote:
Thanks, I think I’ll do that tomorrow.
Please people, tell me your problems with Vista.
I might go Mac. “Once you go Mac, you never go back.”
I wont lie, in school I use Macs alot. Macs are AWESOME!!!!! If I could i would go mac in a heartbeat! Problem is the programs for my career are mostly PC based so I cant :(
just make sure that whatever you need installed in your computer can run effecient on MAC’s. Also with Apple’s boot camp you can run windows and OS X on the same computer. Believe it or not Windows runs better on a MAC..lol. Anyways good luck!
A world class culinary chef huh? That sounds great! You know that business administration is certainly a prereq for that. Do you like to create food? Go for it!!! Thanks for your comment to rachelrosales…it’s people like you that make this site good.
uhh well if you have the software for the XP deleting the vista is the only thing. you can try to upload XP when you still have vista, but I’m not so sure it would work
I’ve heard alot of people say they had problems going from vista back to xp if its a vista laptop.My new laptop is vista just added alot more ram and it seems to work good now.
Why would you buy a laptop that didn’t come with an OS installation disc? Even if you wanted to keep Vista, what about if something happens and you need to reformat your hard drive?
yes you can but…what happened to my bro was that..the shop asked me to go buy windows xp. and they will install it for me..=_=
but the shop is like..vista is the future …and blah and ****.
any computers in 2007 are all pre-installed with vista, this is so, because of the microsoft project (Vista-influence project) which specifically wants all the computers that are sold in 2007 (new computers) be pre-installed with vista, so they can fund this for future improvement of this new type of OS>
Vista OS
Pro-looks nice. very safe.
Cons- its soooo safe that computers crash, and some programs or softwares aren’t allowed to be run on this OS.
For my computer i use Windows XP Home edition, on AMD Athlon x64 with 2 gb of memory which is very very fast.
I recommand vista on a desktop, or laptop will be super duper slow even with a 2GB memory.”Since Vista OS requires 1GB of memory to run basic functions”
Mac
pro: fast, reliable, mostly used for multi-media softwares.
controversial: different OS=different levels of security
mac use intel-duo core cpu also.
con: some people are not used to the interface and everything. since everyone started with PC and not an apple computer.
Mac is good with multimedia compare to “Crappy, movies window maker, crash super often just trying to load videos or music” that PC has.
Get a MAC DESKTOP, RUNS very very fast, and easy to learn, also SAFE.
Chance of getting hacked using a mac “almost never”
Chance of getting hacked using a pc “more often than you think”..unless you are running vista which restricts almost every programs;except for basic like calculators XD
HI i have never been so disapointed and ripped of with a product like windows vista , i figure the only way to get microsoft to do anything about it is to convince people to buy another product i am up to 26 people i have convinced to get a mac , when i am in a store looking at computers or products and see people chooseing i tell them don’t go vista, regards moz
Anthrax wrote:
My laptop came with Vista pre-installed too. I’m not entirely sure how I went about switching… lol
Basically I switched to Linux (openSuSE) first. Just formatted the entire harddrive with the Linux installer. That particular Linux distro didn’t work out well for me, so I… acquired XP pro educational (not getting into details there). The XP installer had no problem with formatting and installing over the Linux partition. After that, XP ran perfectly, until I decided that I didn’t particularly care for Microsoft products anymore (because of Vista), and installed Ubuntu instead.
Anyway, if you can format the harddrive, the computer should be able to accept the XP disk.
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I prefer Linux, because I really love it now, and I’m not too keen on buying expensive Mac hardware.
Don’t #bash it until you’ve tried it…sory, couldn’t resist the pun!
{For all you non linux people…bash is a command…Sorry :( }
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