going back to xp from vista

Headshot

im sick and tired of vista and im hoping to go back to windows xp media center

how do i do this

i have the orignal xp media center cd

i dont see a serial number on the cd by the way or the paper holder it was in

im doing this on my dell laptop

RuggieBear

what has pissed you off about Vista?

ethernet

Is the MCE licence key on the bottom of the laptop? I didn't think of looking for it there before .

You can set up a dual-boot this time and revert to MCE when Vista stresses you out.

Like RuggieBear, I'd also like to know what you dislike about it. Just curious. Microsoft let everyone get too comfortable in taking its time to release a new OS .

papu

im using vista and its been great so far

Kintarō Hattori

papu wrote:

im using vista and its been great so far

Seconded. I have to say I quite like it. It's great the way it handles digital content such as video, music and photo's. Granted it's not exactly fantastic the way it handle's older games, but I can live with that.

papu

eo980 wrote:

Seconded. I have to say I quite like it. It's great the way it handles digital content such as video, music and photo's. Granted it's not exactly fantastic the way it handle's older games, but I can live with that.

the only game i cant play so far is trackmania nations and i have a feeling thats a starforce problem , compatability mode actually works :0

Dublin's Finest

I've also been thinking about reverting to XP. Vista runs very sluggish on my new-ish laptop. And iTunes has been a nightmare with it.

Headshot

Dublin's Finest wrote:

I've also been thinking about reverting to XP. Vista runs very sluggish on my new-ish laptop. And iTunes has been a nightmare with it.

thats my reason too

except i dont use itunes


its very sluggish on my laptop

and my laptop is powerful enough

has 2 gbs of ram

what i did last night
i put the window media centre disk in to my laptop
and restarted and pressed F12 and booted from the cd/dvd drive and installed the windows media center in a partition called somthing like FAT32 or FAT

iv windows xp now

so what has happened to vista

my xp is working perfect except for the sound and graphics card

what could be wrong with the sound and i think ill probly have to download a driver for my graphics card

Cryos

Dublin's Finest wrote:

I've also been thinking about reverting to XP. Vista runs very sluggish on my new-ish laptop. And iTunes has been a nightmare with it.

Dell Laptop, dells drivers for their laptops run crap in vista.

Im using Vista at home and in work... Works a charm

{(-_-)}HeadShoT**

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote:

iv windows xp now

so what has happened to vista

my xp is working perfect except for the sound and graphics card

what could be wrong with the sound and i think ill probly have to download a driver for my graphics card

Sounds like you installed XP to the Vista recovery partition. Vista's still there but it's not bootable, probably just a case of marking the partition active.

Regarding the sound, you probably just need a driver for it. If it's a HD Audio onboard chip you'll also need the 888111 Microsoft hotfix before you can install the sound.

Headshot

Karsini wrote:

Sounds like you installed XP to the Vista recovery partition. Vista's still there but it's not bootable, probably just a case of marking the partition active.

Regarding the sound, you probably just need a driver for it. If it's a HD Audio onboard chip you'll also need the 888111 Microsoft hotfix before you can install the sound.

i downloaded everything from the dells support website

and the sounds working great and graphics card is working great


im glad i went back to xp i can start over again

on a side note

lads whats the best free dvd maker software

and dvd converter

Capt'n Midnight

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote:

i downloaded everything from the dells support website

and the sounds working great and graphics card is working great


im glad i went back to xp i can start over again

on a side note

lads whats the best free dvd maker software

and dvd converter

CD writer software = www.cdburnerxp.se

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Headshot

i was talking about somthing like windows dvd maker

godtabh

If you upgraded from xp to vista you can role back to cp if you still have you windows.old file.

I was trying to do it but didnt have my windows.old file.

I posted a thread about it earlier where some posted instructions on how to do it. Can find it now