How to revert back to xp from vista

After this procedure the following files will remain: Windows. Vista Program Files. Vista Users. Vista Review them and backup all you personal data Program Files.

Step 4 After you backup you data you can delete this folders. Press any key to boot. The age old adage If MS built cars you'd have to build new roads everytime If I was a car manufacturer I'd sell MS a car with a crank shaft to start the engine, oars to row it on the road, a nine volt battery for the lights with a world class easy on the eye interior.

Hey good user interface is all that matters for MS. Then perform a clean install of Windows XP. Thanks for your contribution Carey. However, I've been doing this stuff for 10 years and I know what I am talking about. The XP installation does not work because the setup cannot find the hard drive in the machine.

And the manufacturers "do not have the drivers" for the hardware they have supplied.. As I type this I am on hold with a Sony Vaio support and customer relations team. One of the guy just blurted out the fact that earlier this year they had a contract with MS to supply machines with Vista and not XP. Perfect fodder for a class action suit. I am now really contemplating a class action suit. Any other users willing to join, reply to this post. Lets see how long this list can get.

I'm guessing you'll have to install Vista once again before you can install XP. Once in, pick up all the information about the existing hardware devices you can. If not at Fujitsu, you could find those drivers at Intel based on the chipset you have. Once you have those, because you don't have a floppy drive try the instructions at this link. In my opinion, SONY has a vested interest in DRM, since they own Colombia Pictures, and track record with their root kit disaster, which warrants investigation into a possible unhealthy relationship with Microsoft to build in DRM into the operating system.

This is an entertainment industry wide viewpoint as they are interested in digital rights, that is understandable. Is this why file copying and network browsing take so long? The fact that NO drivers were developed by SONY et All, for alternate operating systems such as windows XP, seems to indicate a deliberate action, and possible collusion with Microsoft to "Lock In" licenses with Vista and ensure that any attempt by the "Licensee" That would be me, the owner of the VAIO notebook to install any alternate operating system, that does not contain DRM, would be sure to fail and discourage the "Licensee" from making a change from Vista.

Any Attorneys have any ideas about such a case? Would this invoke any anti-trust laws? I used the N Lite program. After youve added the drivers I whole heartedly agree! The company should be held accountable under antitrust laws. When we want to buy a machine we are forced into getting vista as you have strongarmed all the manufactures into installing it on there machines.. Not unlike racketeering.

I have Vista Home premium and would like to be "downgraded" to XP media center. I guess the usesrs could start a movement toward a class action suit against the company and get refunds and damages.. MY laptop is now useless after installing recomended updates on January 9, MS should pay me for all the time i put into the data that I am going to lose when I have ti wipe my disk and install XP. I would have done backups but the wicdows back up program never worked right and the system where by I had to burn my own recovery disks also failed.

The policy of not including a disk with every operating system installed is bad business. Dont give me the line that its up to th manufactures to provide the disks. Its your operating system and you have been gouging and ripping off the consumers for over 20 years now..

VISTA sucks. It came with ny new Toshiba laptop. Everything I download, no matter how I configure my system, Vista will not allow it to run. If there is to be class action suit, sign me up. The bulk of the users are Vista home premium users. Business editions can still be downgraded but what about the bulk of the users.

Moreover how can MS say they are different products. For me it is MS providing OS. If the consumer is not satisfied then they should have an alternative. The alternative here is a previous edition and not a previous product. Ronni Pedersen wrote:. A basic, but very attractive Dell C desktop purchased for my 86 year old father to monitor his share portfolio Add me to the class action.

Vista sucks. Big time. My nVidia driver continually crashes. If I can't find XP drivers for the computer I bought only 1. It's two years that this problem has occurred, and the only solution that Windows Help or whatever it is called, tell me to go to the Microsoft and nVidia website and download the new driver.

I have already done this, and was so unhelpful. I continue to have screen flickers and have to wait for at least seconds to get back. It's worse than a running Windows ME. Got the Blue Screen of Death twice, and Vista was supposed to fix that. All consumers should just boycott even buying computers for a few years and see how it affects profits. Almost a year later.

Any luck? This is so frustrating. It is advertised that the sims 2 will work on vista but no. Not even in compatibility mode to xp. Loaded it on my reliable acer which had to be upgraded a little and looked forward to faster performance with crisper graphics.

It crashed so bad I had to drop the machine hard I had no mouse and no keyboard. I may not be a tech but not stupid. I agree why cant we chose our OS game designers obviously use XP to design games so why on new laptops as a comsumer don't we have the right to use the OS that gives the best reliability and performance. It wont change a faulty poor designed product. You'll have to dowload Windows XP compatible hardware drivers and install them.

Become a Patron of Ask Leo! My first recommendation is actually to consider sticking with Windows Vista. Other than that and some UI fluff and rearranging, Vista really is just an incremental change on top of XP.

This will get you a working copy of Windows XP for the laptop. The problem, if you want to call it that, is that any manufacturer-specific drivers and software will not be included.

Chances are your hardware will still operate, but some of the non-standard features may not be enabled. The good news here is that those drivers are typically still available from the manufacturer. Switching from Vista to XP is considered a downgrade. That means that the Windows XP setup program will see that you have a newer version of Windows already on your machine.

As a result it will refuse to overwrite it. That is, Vista is not removed and XP is installed separately. You might even end up with dual-boot to allow you to choose at boot time which one you want. Even worse, switching between XP and Vista, if you choose to do so, may get confusing as configuration changes will need to be made in both places. My recommendation is that you instead backup , reformat and reinstall from scratch. This will remove everything from your system hard disk , including Vista, all applications and data.

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