Back to XP !!

I unfortunatly have Vista Ultimate installed - it is slow, cumbersome and
memory intensive. I want to change back to XP - how can I do this ??

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By clean installing winxp, presumably your sys has winxp drivers available?

"bicky via WindowsKB.com" <u36957@uwe> wrote in message
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>I unfortunatly have Vista Ultimate installed - it is slow, cumbersome and
> memory intensive. I want to change back to XP - how can I do this ??
>
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You would need to purchase a "Full Version" of
Windows XP and perform a complete "clean install".

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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"bicky via WindowsKB.com" <u36957@uwe> wrote in message news:84c9ccf323114@uwe...
I unfortunatly have Vista Ultimate installed - it is slow, cumbersome and
memory intensive. I want to change back to XP - how can I do this ??

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Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
> You would need to purchase a "Full Version" of
> Windows XP and perform a complete "clean install".

Or an update version or a generic OEM version.

Alias
>
> Clean Install Windows XP
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
>

Alais, a later OS(vista) considers XP an earlier viersion(which it is!!!),
and WON'T update(upgrade)
FULL version is CORRECT!
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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Alias" wrote:

> Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
> > You would need to purchase a "Full Version" of
> > Windows XP and perform a complete "clean install".
>
> Or an update version or a generic OEM version.
>
> Alias
> >
> > Clean Install Windows XP
> > http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
> >
>

Mick Murphy wrote:
> Alais, a later OS(vista) considers XP an earlier viersion(which it is!!!),
> and WON'T update(upgrade)
> FULL version is CORRECT!

You missed the part about "clean install"? One may clean install XP
using an Update, generic OEM or Retail version. With the Update, you do
need to have a 9x or NT CD on hand. Vista has nothing to do with it
except that you need to nuke Vista before proceeding. I like the CDs
that come from Seagate for Seagate and Maxtor drives to do the nuking.

Alias

"Alias" wrote:
> > Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
>> > > You would need to purchase a "Full Version" of
>> > > Windows XP and perform a complete "clean install".
> >
> > Or an update version or a generic OEM version.
> >
> > Alias
>> > >
>> > > Clean Install Windows XP
>> > > http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
>> > >
> >

In article <84c9ccf323114@uwe>, bicky via WindowsKB.com <u36957@uwe> wrote:
>I unfortunatly have Vista Ultimate installed - it is slow, cumbersome and
>memory intensive. I want to change back to XP - how can I do this ??
>

Click your speakers together three times and repeat "there's
no place like 2001, there's no place like 2001"

Lol :-)

Just get a legal XP and install it, format the old vista partitions.
It would be a good idea to locate and save XP drivers for your hardware
before trying to re-install.

bicky via WindowsKB.com wrote:
> I unfortunatly have Vista Ultimate installed - it is slow, cumbersome and
> memory intensive. I want to change back to XP - how can I do this ??
>


If you upgraded to Vista from WinXP, and retained the Windows.Old
folder:

How to go back to Windows XP after you have upgraded a Windows XP-based
computer to Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933170/en-us

How to restore a computer to a previous Windows installation after you
install Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168/en-us

Otherwise:

After backing up any data you wish to transfer to the new OS
installation, simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be
offered the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part
of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of
boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm


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This advice is perfect - many thanks.

Bruce Chambers wrote:
>> I unfortunatly have Vista Ultimate installed - it is slow, cumbersome and
>> memory intensive. I want to change back to XP - how can I do this ??
>
> If you upgraded to Vista from WinXP, and retained the Windows.Old
>folder:
>
>How to go back to Windows XP after you have upgraded a Windows XP-based
>computer to Windows Vista
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933170/en-us
>
>How to restore a computer to a previous Windows installation after you
>install Windows Vista
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168/en-us
>
> Otherwise:
>
> After backing up any data you wish to transfer to the new OS
>installation, simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be
>offered the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part
>of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of
>boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)
>
>HOW TO Install Windows XP
>http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;en-us;316941
>
>http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
>
>http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm
>

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