I bought a laptop in January (maybe the end of december) and it came with Vista home premium and i cant stand it, its slow its stupid and its just plain wrong. I sold my last PC and with it went XP CD. Now im wondering if i could contact Microsoft and ask them to send me XP and i will remove Vista or can anything like that be done?
I doubt they'll refund you, I bought vista and once you learn it better you'll like it better. I can do much better maintenance with it.
As Windows Vista was pre-installed on your laptop thre is no help from Microsoft...if you really want then you have to pay. Even you cannot downgrade it for free..either you have to purchase Windows XP and have to to fresh installation.....it is sad news ..... why dont you try to learn Vista..that will give you much more security and other more interesting things than XP......as you have paid so much ..better you learn it.....
You need to go back to your laptop vendor instead, just ask them if they can reload the laptop as XP, but I think you may need to purchase a license from them and also the reloading fees need to be factored in.
I cant stand vista its so painfully slow, when i open PSP it tells me everytime it cant use see through header things (like im really that bothered) every time i run something for the first time it asks me if i want to do it. Things are in different places to XP/Windows 95/98 etc - why move things? Im not paying to downgrade to an old system ive actually decided that now i would rather sell ym license to someone that wants it and get linux, if ms cant offer you a free downgrade and revoke your licens on vista then they dont deserve any custom from me.
Well it is possible. Friend of mine downgraded from Vista to XP... but I don't know whether he had to pay for new XP licence or not? Try calling MS customer service...
Microsoft don't give out XP cd's anymore You can't even buy one from them. Your only option is to either find a reseller online of XP or to try buy the disk on ebay, so long as you have a valid license and are using it on one PC only.
i tried to install xp on my new vista laptop, but wireless didn't work with xp. Not always there are XP drivers for the new laptops, to use xp applications sometimes is easier to install ubuntu and emulate xp with wine (or simply vista with vmware)
Strange, I am yet to find any computing product 'vista certified' which doesn't have XP drivers. Even my brand new laptop top-of-the-range laptop which Dell supplied with Vista Ultimate can run XP Pro. Dell assured me it was "impossible" - I've been running it for around a month now with various applications, never had any side effects, BSOD's, etc - nothing. I admit I did have to find Vista drivers and actually modify the specific .inf files - but it is possible! Impossible is nothing.
I don't think it's possible to downgrade. And I notice there are several brands of laptop only support vista as their OS and of course they do not provide xp driver with it. Even when you try to insert xp cd, the xp setup can not recognize the harddisk. But the funny thing is... sometimes vista is not bundled with it.
Does anyone know where to buy a XP Pro disc from? WHich is cheap? As i have the same problem? Cheers Kev
For XP Pro your only real option would be a small local computer retailer as they tend to have older software/operating systems. Or try eBay. I picked up an XP Pro 64-bit cd for £14 for my desktop pc.
There are a few vendors that are offering XP downgrades for free, but most are not. Your only other option is to purchase XP and install it clean on your laptop.
Microsoft allows oem mfg. to exchange in Vista Business and Ultimate for XP Pro. I've done this with Lenovo and Dell. Mark
You just need to use the SATA drivers, just hit F6 during XP setup to load them from a floppy disk (or you can add them to the XP setup CD using nLite).
I have now downgraded 4 computers from vista to xp, if you buy the OEM version you can get it cheaper