"Upgrade" from Vista to XP

Discussion in 'Software' started by Scousetechie, Jun 23, 2008.

  1. Scousetechie

    Scousetechie Specialist

    A friend of mine bought a HP Pavilion Laptop about 6 months ago with Vista preloaded. He can't get on with it and more to the point he now has to run a couple of business programs that are incompatible with Vista.

    Can anybody foresee any problems with buying XP Pro and formatting the HDD and loading XP on it?

    TIA
     
    Scousetechie, Jun 23, 2008
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  2. joelsz

    joelsz First Sergeant

    The biggest problem encountered with "upgrading" from Vista to XP is getting the proper drivers for your computer.
    Many manufacturers (such as HP) have stopped making XP drivers available for their products, opting instead for Vista only drivers.
    If you could give us the model number of the computer we could do a check and see if the XP drivers are available.
     
    joelsz, Jun 23, 2008
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  3. Scousetechie

    Scousetechie Specialist

    Somewhat unlikely as they have just released SP3 and Dell are still insisting on buying it as an OEM.
     
    Scousetechie, Jun 23, 2008
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