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Windows Vista Problem Help?!

  • 27-11-2007 5:25pm
    #1
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Long story short, my mother, for reasons best known to herself, ran a Windows Vista Anytime Upgrade on her laptop which (though some process I'm not quite clear on) reconfigured the OS to the point that the PC runs incredibly slowly and is almost unuseable.

    She contacted the manufacturer who said that Vista needs to be remapped so she's sent it to me (because the laptop was bought in US and the Euro office don't have a licence for the software).

    Now, I'm very familiar with windows OS up to XP, but haven't made the leap to Vista yet.

    Not entirely sure what the manufacturer tech support people mean by remapping the OS, but from what I can gather, factory restore attempts have failed.

    Basically, I'm wondering can I do this repair myself, if so, what do you think I need.

    If anyone can explain what might be wrong, I'd be appreciate it.


Comments

  • #2
    LoLth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    you should be able to use the system restore CD to restore it to XP then run the anytime upgrade to upgrade it to vista again - ring MS to re-activate it so they know you're nice and not an evil poirate or linux user.

    While you're doing that, check the spec of the laptop. Vista uses waaaaaay more ram than xp and uses it differently too.

    No idea what "remapping" an OS is though. these might help:

    http://www.fixya.com/support/t185015-loading_windows_anytime_upgrade


    and here:
    http://www.vistax64.com/vista-installation-setup/61031-vista-reinstall.html


  • #3
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Yeah, I've never heard of remapping an OS.

    As I said, apparently the factory restore attempt failed, but now I have it myself, i'll give it a try.

    Thanks man!


  • #4
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,251 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    If you're only 1gb of ram on the laptop then thats just Vista. It's uses upwards of 800mb just to run...


  • #5
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Oh Lolth...I should have explained better.

    The OS was already on Vista... it was a Vista Basic package when bought. She was running the Anytime upgrade, because the disk was there and she thought she should run it, not because she wanted to upgrade...

    So no XP at all.

    About the RAM issue. 1.5GB of ram iirc, she says it ran alot faster before she ran the anytime upgrade disc.


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