Is possible to Downgrade from Win 7 to XP2

Visiondvd

Never cease's to amaze me that when op just wants advice, it ends up a load of !!!!!es having a catfight.
stick with win 7, invest more ram 4gb plenty,if your still not happy, buy a new laptop.

debitcardmayhem

auroan wrote: »

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 condesending 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. 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 accessable 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.

Troll here i see you still can't spell Condescending and other words
I don't have an ego and I don't need to push my experience in IT either , needless to say that will my last word to you "young man"

Visiondvd

Notmyrealname wrote: »

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.

I had similar dealings with MS and can confirm this is correct.
Any oem sticker, dies with the mainboard, but then who cares about xp nowadays.

calisto

I have to say, XP SP3 is (was) good. Vista was an utter crock of !!!!!, but when I got ahold of Win 7, even my ancient AMD 2500 with 1GB RAM worked like a dream. Of course I had to modify it's ancient BIOS with a SLIC table (nudge, wink), but am well pleased.

Likewise my ancient Dell Inspiron 9400. (Ok, I SLIC'd that BIOS too ;] ). The near instant on/off using system resume is a godsend.

I do still keep (legit old technet licenced) XP's for VM use. I also tend to run most of my server stuff in VM's on a legit Win Server 2003, using Sun/Oracle VirtualBox. That is were I have multiple Linux installations running typical LAMP server stuff, and my home security system using Zoneminder.

I really should just ditch microsoft and go full blown linux..