Going from Vista to XP

digp

Has anyone managed to successfully do this. THe PC I bought comes with Visa which is just awful. I've managed to install XP. But half the stuff doesn;t work, e.g. ethernet, sound card etc.

computerwoman

go to whsmith buy a book on vista for £9.99 and learn to use vista as that is the future not xp...:D

Rev

Have you installed the drivers for the sound card? lan? etc
after the clean XP install?

malamute

You need to go to the computer manufacturers web site, Using the make and model number of your machine you should providing they are available be able to download .
If you have any problems let us know make and model and we may be able to locate them for you.

d123

What make is the PC?

Go to the PC manufacturer's website and look in their Support section for downloads of the XP drivers. Download and install the XP drivers and you should be sorted.

digp

computerwoman wrote: »

go to whsmith buy a book on vista for £9.99 and learn to use vista as that is the future not xp...:D

i will not have crap foisted on me.

computerwoman

digp wrote: »

i will not have crap foisted on me.

all I am saying is unstead of saying your sick of vista learn to use it that's all, I have vista home premium and I cannot fault it I would never go back to xp...:D

epz_2

computerwoman wrote: »

all I am saying is unstead of saying your sick of vista learn to use it that's all, I have vista home premium and I cannot fault it I would never go back to xp...:D

appart from the fact that if you want to do anything out the ordinary like use older hardware, programs its not supported properly and its massivly slower than xp for no real benifit.

xp is going to be arround for a long time still as businesses which pay ms a lot of cash vs the oems who bundle it almost free woulnt touch it for at least a couple of years.

re the ops point i think the vista license is backwards compatible so you can legally download, i would advise backing up anything on it, getting copies of the drivers, and a clean install.

most windows upgrades ive seen suffer horrible problems, god knows what a downgrade would do.

fyi if your formating the drive anyway why not take a look at the real future and whack a verion of linux on to have a play, kde4 can do the opengl stuff vista does on a 1ghz 256meg pc with integrated graphics lol.

Danyúl_II

Why not just go into device manager and then update all drivers via there?

That'll find you the newest, and most importantly, the correct drivers for your system.

Lakeuk

digp wrote: »

i will not have crap foisted on me.

You didn't have it foisted on you, you chose to get a PC with vista installed, you could easily got one with XP

NovaBlack_2

Actually it is very hard to get an XP pc package new these days!

Its the way MS are saturating the market with Vista by paying manufacturers to choose it for nearly all new builds. Everyone knows its crappy!

I have dual boot, XP and VISTA. at the moment id say once a month i use vista, when i have to (DX10 games etc), but i would stick with XP anyday.

Vista has so much crap installed (Aero desktop theme, and windows defender im looking at you). Even when you turn all that off , there is still around 500 mb of background processes running, that are hidden from the task manager (running covert) so cant be switched off.

Essentially that means around half a gig of ram gets wasted in vista!. i had 3gb of ram on xp, went to Vista and effectively only gain about 100 mb in extra memory after i deduct all the automatically used stuff!

Plus, LOADS of incompatibilities with Software AND hardware. Vista REALLY had a problem with my Nvidia display drivers and would crash on any 3d accellerated applications after an hour or so. Thats taken me about 6 months to fix (partly thanks to recently released drivers) but also ALOT of manual tweaking.


Until the firsrt official service pack comes out then avoid Vista as long as you can.



Im sure you can go into BIOS at startup to get a list of important model names.numbers for your components. Then just dl the appropriate drivers. should fix it.