Hashpatung wrote:
>
> Many thanks everyone for useful hints.
>
> To respond to the "logic" comment, I gotta say I have lost confidence
> on MS particularly when it makes a huge hue and cry about something.
> This is actually how I easily gave up on my nice Satellite running on XP
> to my brother-in-law and got vista stuck up my ass. So, I'd rather get
> back to a well examined and approved Windows than a boasted yet to
> thoroughly understand one. I've read around and noticed that XP in a
> number of ways is still running better than 7, specially on older
> machine like mine: to give a sense: it is a 3 years old machine with
> 1.66 GHz clock time, have one the first core 2 processors that came out.
> Its 2 GB RAM and 200 GB hard are the only rather acceptable features!
>
> Matter of fact, elaborating more about my distrusting MS, I actually
> tried and quite loved ubuntu but unfortunately a school software was not
> compatible. I imagine as soon as I defend my thesis, will most likely
> get back to ubuntu (or some other linux).
>
> I do have a recovery CD which came with a different model of A100 so
> the BIOS locked comment makes a lot of sense. Will try to work it out
> with a true XP.
I don't recall making any comments about XP vs. Vista. I thought I was just
responding to your question. Further on replacing Vista with XP:
On an OEM (HP, Sony, etc.) computer:
1. Go to the OEM's website and look for XP drivers for your specific model
computer. If there are no XP drivers, then you can't install XP. End of
story. If there are drivers, download them and store on a CD-R or USB
thumbdrive; you'll need them after you install XP.
2. Check with the OEM - either from their tech support website or by calling
them - to see if you will void your warranty if you do this. If you will
void the warranty, you make the decision.
3. If the OEM does support XP on the machine, call them and see if you can
have downgrade rights and have them send you an XP restore disk. This will
be far the easiest and best way of getting XP on the machine.
4. If XP is supported on the machine but the OEM doesn't have an XP restore
disk for you, understand that you'll need to purchase a retail copy of XP
from your favorite online or brick/mortar store.
5. Also understand that you will need to do a clean install of XP so if you
have any data you want, back it up first.
6. If none of the above is applicable to you because you can't run XP on
that machine (see Item #1 above), return the computer and purchase one
running XP instead.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...alling_Windows - What
you will need on-hand
Malke
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