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    1. 02-08-2008 07:42 PM #1
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      Downgrading to XP on my laptop

      Hello again, I was wondering if it would be a good Idea to downgrade from Vista to XP on my laptop, or even just run both. Anyone have a view on this
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    2. 02-08-2008 07:47 PM #2
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      Downgrade! Down with Vista!

      No seriously though, XP will be much faster and will use up a heck of a lot less ram.
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    3. 02-08-2008 07:49 PM #3
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      Quote Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant View Post
      Downgrade! Down with Vista!

      No seriously though, XP will be much faster and will use up a heck of a lot less ram.
      That's what I thought, but I'm afraid something will go wrong while install windows XP, and my laptop will be rendered usless
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    4. 02-08-2008 09:26 PM #4
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      Unlikely, it's probably more likely that Vista will break your laptop than the XP install. I've installed XP on hundreds of computers and nothing's ever gone wrong.

      The downgrade is $90 though.
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    5. 02-08-2008 10:43 PM #5
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      Why don't you just use a dual-boot to have both?
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      Why Downgrade anyway? I've had Vista on my Computer for around 8+ Months now, never had a problem with it.
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      Don't uninstall Vista.
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      They're right, Vista is the best thing Microsoft have ever done.

      I've had it for months and it is fantastic.
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    9. 02-09-2008 12:26 AM #9
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      the Business editions of Vista can be downgraded for free
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    10. 02-09-2008 12:29 AM #10
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      Downgrading? It's called upgrading. XP was fine, and they really didn't have to do that to fight against leopard. I guess, maybe it wasn't HORRIBLE that they did, but, i'm fine withought it.

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    11. 02-09-2008 02:01 AM #11
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      If your laptop is super new, check if all your hardware is supported in XP.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Replicon View Post
      If your laptop is super new, check if all your hardware is supported in XP.


      no manufacturer is stupid enough to not release drivers for an 80&#37; majority
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      If your hardware supports Vista, then it will support XP. That's assuming that there is no 64-bit specific hardware on it, but I don't think any PCs have that.

      Why do you want to downgrade? For anyone other than a technical user or a gamer Vista should be fine.
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      Quote Originally Posted by ninja9578 View Post

      Why do you want to downgrade? For anyone other than a technical user or a gamer Vista should be fine.
      And that's only if you play older games, anyway.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Grod View Post
      And that's only if you play older games, anyway.
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      try playing crysis.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Grod View Post
      And that's only if you play older games, anyway.
      Most games run better on XP and require much lower requirements. Don't most games say right on the box their minimum specs for each OS. Vista's always twice the RAM.

      There were some games released for Vista only initially, but after it's failure most game companies release versions for both. As far as I know the only game developer still making Vista only games is Microsoft.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Ynot View Post


      no manufacturer is stupid enough to not release drivers for an 80% majority
      Heh that IS true
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      It's not a good idea to down grade as this can cause al kinds of problems with things like the bios and drivers. Duel run bother operating systems if you have to.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Namio View Post
      It's not a good idea to down grade as this can cause al kinds of problems with things like the bios and drivers.

      The bios is the bios
      it really doesn't care what OS you have

      and different OS's will use different drivers

      Quote Originally Posted by Namio View Post
      Duel run bother operating systems if you have to.
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      duel run bother
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      Quote Originally Posted by Namio View Post
      Duel run bother operating systems if you have to.
      As far as I know PC's can't do that without buying additional software.
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      Quote Originally Posted by ninja9578 View Post
      As far as I know PC's can't do that without buying additional software.
      Then you don't know QEMU.

      Although, come to think of it, it doesn't run bother operating systems.
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      Quote Originally Posted by dsr View Post
      Then you don't know QEMU.
      or virtualbox
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      or xen
      or whatever that other one's called
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    23. 02-16-2008 12:30 AM #23
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      Never saw QEMU, I thought vmware and xen were apps you had to pay for?
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      Quote Originally Posted by Ynot View Post
      or virtualbox
      or vmware
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      Oh yeah, how could I leave out VirtualBox. I even recommended it in another thread. VMware isn't free (libre) software, and Xen is a different kind of virtualizer, but QEMU (with kqemu) and VirtualBox have worked great for me. In fact, kqemu would never have been GPLed if it weren't for VirtualBox's timely entrance into the scene of virtualization last year,
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