de install an re-install XP Pro

[Guest]

Unfortunatley Vista and Office12 have not been stable enough for me to run my
busines critcal laptop on it. How can I de-install Vista/Office20007 and
reinstal XP/2003?
the install disk for XP wont work as I get a message stating I am not
allowed to install an oolder OS version than the current install

 

[Mark D. VandenBeg]

Unfortunatley Vista and Office12 have not been stable enough for me to run
my
busines critcal laptop on it. How can I de-install Vista/Office20007 and
reinstal XP/2003?
the install disk for XP wont work as I get a message stating I am not
allowed to install an oolder OS version than the current install

"Beta support policy
This is pre-release (beta) software distributed for trial and testing
purposes only."

"In addition, once you install Windows Vista Beta 2 (or RC1) you cannot roll
back to the previous operating system installation-you will either have to
acquire and install the final released edition of Windows Vista or reinstall
a previous edition of Windows. Before installing Windows Vista Beta 2 on any
computer, please remember to back up all your files.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

So, reformat the thing, reinstall the operating system that came with it and
then put all your files back that you made a back-up copy of.

 

[Guest]

Yep, I was a big optimist..."blonde moment"... saw all the MS execs at WPC
running on vista. biggest issue is that Outlook2007 keeps c rashing after
every email read/open....

reformat I will...thx

 

[Mark D. VandenBeg]

The Outlook/Word crash is caused by an incompatibility with an Adobe Acrobat
plug-in. It is no longer needed, since Office 2007 offers the ability to
save a file as a .pdf by itself. Go to Start>Control
Panel>Programs>Installed Programs, choose Acrobat, and choose "modify" and
then remove that part of the program.

 

[Alan Simpson]

FWIW, I think the ability to save to PDF in Office 2007 is going bye-bye.
Adobe was none to pleased about that one (and aren't particularly happy
about XPS either).

 

[Mark D. VandenBeg]

Well, here's the rub, Alan: if Adobe is not happy about .pdf in Office, then
they will have to sue Foxit, CuteFTP, Microsoft etc... and I doubt they are
going to or have the desire to invest the resources. I have not used
Acrobat to view or create a .pdf file for a few years, now, and I doubt I
will for a long time. Adobe, because of the fact that .pdf is ubiquitous
globally, will lose if they try to enforce a monopoly against Microsoft
using the legal system. The irony is quite humourous, though!