vista

[Guest]

how do you do a clean sweep. and once you do that don't you still have vista.
I heard that once you have vista there is no way to get rid of it. best buy
says I need to run a partition to have both vista and xp sp2.
comments please thank you

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Clean Install Windows XP:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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how do you do a clean sweep. and once you do that don't you still have vista.
I heard that once you have vista there is no way to get rid of it. best buy
says I need to run a partition to have both vista and xp sp2.
comments please thank you

 

[Guest]

Carey,

I cannot post a question to this group, only reply to questions. Can you
help me?

Thanks,

Peter

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

It's called a format, and that is not always sufficient. To run both XP and
Vista requires at least two volumes, whether that be a drive that is split
or two drives. Vista is removed by booting the install disk for XP and
deleting the existing install partition, then creating a new one for XP as
part of the initial setup.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Peter Foldes]

You just did. What happens when you try posting a new message. Any error messages.

Windows Version incl any SP
Which newsreader are you using

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Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
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[Guest]

Got it. Blocked by the Google toolbar.

Thanks.

You just did. What happens when you try posting a new message. Any error messages.

Windows Version incl any SP
Which newsreader are you using

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Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
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[Guest]

thank you for your response that eases my mind I have ordered a xp sp2. not a
download. I do have one more question for you if I don't respond to the
activation for vista what will happen will it just stop running vista. or
will it just shut down my computer. I have 7 days I don't want to activate. I
did not know that there was no add remove program in vista.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi JoAnne,

If you do not activate, Vista will go into a limited use mode until you do.
You can temporarily extend the activation period, just enter "slmgr -rearm"
at an elevated command prompt. To get one, click start and type CMD, then
right click the entry in the start menu and select 'run as administrator'.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com