Vista and XP

daveyo

Vista and XP

Windows Vista14
Hi Folks,

has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade) and

return to XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of the time

and crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them to tell me how

to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

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Regards

Mike and Dina

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Alias

Registered User

Fri Nov 02 07:49:08 PDT 2007

Re:Vista and XP

Mike Charlton wrote:

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Hi Folks,

has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade) and

return to XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of the

time and crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them to

tell me how to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

Do you have a restore disk from Dell? If so, back everything up and use

it to nuke the drive and restore the computer back to how it was when

you bought it. If you don't have a restore disk and it's on a hidden

partition, perhaps you can make a restore disk from it or just use it to

restore back to factory settings.

If Dell gave you an XP disk and a drivers disk, use those.

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Andre

Registered User

Fri Nov 02 08:05:25 PDT 2007

Re:Vista and XP

If you have an XP installation disk, boot from it and format the partition

on which Vista is currently installed during the text based portion of

setup. Make sure all your important files and documents are backed up. Also

ensure you can obtain XP device drivers from Dells website for your system

components. If you don't have an XP disk, you will just have to buy one.

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"Mike Charlton" <mikadene@nildram.co.uk>wrote in message

Quote

Hi Folks,

has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade) and

return to XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of the

time and crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them to tell

me how to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

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Regards

Mike and Dina

Charlie42

Registered User

Fri Nov 02 08:29:18 PDT 2007

Re:Vista and XP

Mike Charlton <mikadene@nildram.co.uk>wrote:

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has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade) and return to

XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of the time and

crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them to tell me

how to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

Try this approach before you resort to a clean XP install. Remember to

back up first!

support.microsoft.com/kb/933168" >support.microsoft.com/kb/933168

Charlie42

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Tom

Registered User

Fri Nov 02 10:07:40 PDT 2007

Re:Vista and XP

This might be useful:

www.goodells.net/dellrestore/fixes.htm" >www.goodells.net/dellrestore/fixes.htm

Tom

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"Mike Charlton" <mikadene@nildram.co.uk>wrote in message

Quote

Hi Folks,

has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade)

and return to XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of

the time and crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them

to tell me how to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

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Regards

Mike and Dina

Saucy

Registered User

Fri Nov 02 16:23:42 PDT 2007

Re:Vista and XP

"Mike Charlton" <mikadene@nildram.co.uk>wrote in message

Quote

Hi Folks,

has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade) and

return to XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of the

time and crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them to tell

me how to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

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Regards

Mike and Dina

If you have the time and inclination, maybe a clean install of Vista might

work out better for you? Historically, upgrades have had a terrible tendency

to carry junk from the original os installation over to the new

installation:

www.saucylemon.com/vinstall.htm" >www.saucylemon.com/vinstall.htm

Saucy

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Bruce

Registered User

Sat Nov 03 09:16:09 PDT 2007

Re:Vista and XP

Mike Charlton wrote:

Quote

Hi Folks,

has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade) and

return to XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of the

time and crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them to

tell me how to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

How to go back to Windows XP after you have upgraded a Windows XP-based

computer to Windows Vista

support.microsoft.com/kb/933170/en-us" >support.microsoft.com/kb/933170/en-us

How to restore a computer to a previous Windows installation after you

install Windows Vista

support.microsoft.com/kb/933168/en-us" >support.microsoft.com/kb/933168/en-us

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