Is possible to Downgrade from Win 7 to XP2

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LincolnshireYokel

auroan wrote: »

The only way you'll get hold of XP legally is via a technet subscription.

I'm interested to know what your think the right amount of ram etc is correct for Win 7 and what your laptop spec is ?

Its also perfectly legal to recover the licence from a scrap machine. As long as you obtain the machine legally, and only one machine has that licence on it, its legal. Our local PC shop sells recovered XP, Vista and W7 licences, and has verified with MS its legal.

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LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

Its also perfectly legal to recover the licence from a scrap machine. As long as you obtain the machine legally, and only one machine has that licence on it, its legal. Our local PC shop sells recovered XP, Vista and W7 licences, and has verified with MS its legal.

Since the machine already has a licence 'attached', all that you need is a DELL XP recovery disc.

GunJack

I recon once the drivers are sorted out, you shouldn't see any degradation in performance in 7 compared to XP, unless you had XP tweaked down to my kind of levels and you've left the W7 install "out of the box" including Defender, search indexing, background defrag, etc., etc., etc., all running in the background....

Notmyrealname

auroan wrote: »

Your problem regards performance in Win 7 is memory. 2GB of ram will see you swapping memory to disk in very short order once you have anti-virus, a few backgroud apps and a browser running. 4GB* is really the bare minimum I would advise be spec'd for Win7.


(* - I qualify this advice with 15 years experience in the IT industry)

Absolute utter horse manure. 2GB is more than sufficient. You may see a lot being used but that is because the Superfetch service pre-loads applications into unused memory for faster launch.

(* - I qualify this advice with 25 years experience in the IT industry, a lot of it fixing problems so called "experts" like you create.)

Notmyrealname

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

Its also perfectly legal to recover the licence from a scrap machine. As long as you obtain the machine legally, and only one machine has that licence on it, its legal. Our local PC shop sells recovered XP, Vista and W7 licences, and has verified with MS its legal.

It isn't - the shop is lying to you. It is an OEM licence that dies with the machine. It is NOT transferrable. The only transferrable licences are full retail and upgrade if the upgrade is uninstalled.

I had a phone call last week from someone who has been selling such licences and has had a letter with demand for money from Microsoft asking for advice because I posted about a friend who had a business in Wales who Microsoft sued for doing the same a couple of years ago.

Microsoft have the Registered Refurbisher scheme which my company is a part of where you get heavily discounted Windows 7 Home Premium licences (£25 or thereabouts per machine) to put on used machines like that shop is selling.

debitcardmayhem

Notmyrealname wrote: »

Absolute utter horse manure. 2GB is more than sufficient. You may see a lot being used but that is because the Superfetch service pre-loads applications into unused memory for faster launch.

(* - I qualify this advice with 25 years experience in the IT industry, a lot of it fixing problems so called "experts" like you create.)

Careful [STRIKE]Ha [/STRIKE]Notmyrealname i got called a troll(and an old man) earlier by the said expert.

auroan

Notmyrealname wrote: »

Absolute utter horse manure. 2GB is more than sufficient. You may see a lot being used but that is because the Superfetch service pre-loads applications into unused memory for faster launch.

(* - I qualify this advice with 25 years experience in the IT industry, a lot of it fixing problems so called "experts" like you create.)

Oh really. utter horse manure ? Who called me an expert ? I certainly didn't ? I believe you just have.

I'm have 15 years experience in the IT industry, specifically on high end Unix systems as a Tech Architect for a major blue chip systems integration company. However I do deal with Microsoft systems so also hold a current MCSE.

I've never said 2GB is not enough to run Win 7. Don't go down the route that some other condescending troll did. I said that a Win XP machine with 2GB of RAM will function faster than a Win 7 machine with 2GB running the same tasks, as the Win 7 machine will start to page out to disk well before the XP one will. Re-read what I put. I answered the OP's issue with regard to performance equalization.

And with regards to super-fetch, it has two functions. Decreases boot time and decreases program load time by monitoring application usage and forming trace files which allow algorithms within the service to preload application data into memory. This section of memory is always accessible to applications if needed and is immediately flushed on request of a higher priority thread.

Instead of jumping on someone else's comments with out any for thought or understanding of the OPs original question.... why don't you try and help the OP.

auroan

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Careful [STRIKE]Ha [/STRIKE]Notmyrealname i got called a troll(and an old man) earlier by the said expert.

Yes, because your first comment in the thread was to !!!! all over someone else's offerings of help by insulting them.

Did I hurt your ego ?

auroan

Notmyrealname wrote: »

(* - I qualify this advice with 25 years experience in the IT industry, a lot of it fixing problems so called "experts" like you create.)

25 years on the service desk then ?