Vista and XP

[Mike Charlton]

Hi Folks,
has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade) and
return to XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of the time
and crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them to tell me how
to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Alias]

Hi Folks,
has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade) and
return to XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of the
time and crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them to
tell me how to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

Do you have a restore disk from Dell? If so, back everything up and use
it to nuke the drive and restore the computer back to how it was when
you bought it. If you don't have a restore disk and it's on a hidden
partition, perhaps you can make a restore disk from it or just use it to
restore back to factory settings.

If Dell gave you an XP disk and a drivers disk, use those.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

If you have an XP installation disk, boot from it and format the partition
on which Vista is currently installed during the text based portion of
setup. Make sure all your important files and documents are backed up. Also
ensure you can obtain XP device drivers from Dells website for your system
components. If you don't have an XP disk, you will just have to buy one.

 

[Charlie42]

has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade) and return to
XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of the time and
crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them to tell me
how to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

Try this approach before you resort to a clean XP install. Remember to
back up first!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168

Charlie42

 

[Tom Ferguson]

This might be useful:
http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/fixes.htm

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007

 

[Saucy]

Hi Folks,
has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade) and
return to XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of the
time and crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them to tell
me how to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

If you have the time and inclination, maybe a clean install of Vista might
work out better for you? Historically, upgrades have had a terrible tendency
to carry junk from the original os installation over to the new
installation:

http://www.saucylemon.com/vinstall.htm

Saucy

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi Folks,
has anyone any idea how I can uninstall Vista (Upgrade) and
return to XP . This program is doing my head in. It hangs most of the
time and crashes everyday. Dell want me to give them £57 for them to
tell me how to do it on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.

How to go back to Windows XP after you have upgraded a Windows XP-based
computer to Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933170/en-us

How to restore a computer to a previous Windows installation after you
install Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168/en-us


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Bruce Chambers

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