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scrungebucket
scrungebucket Posts: 189 Forumite
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Is there a site available for what is Vista and what is not vista compatable?
I need to know that my printers and some software will run under Vista before I buy a vista laptop.

Thanks
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  • Zagu
    Zagu Posts: 2,711 Forumite
    A "vista compatibility" search in Google appears to work quite well...

    Windows Vista RTM Software Compatibility List

    Id search for the printer model + vista too.
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  • missile
    missile Posts: 11,869 Forumite
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    What printer and software do you have??
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  • CHR15
    CHR15 Posts: 5,193 Forumite
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    Non Vista Laptops are becoming more and more scarce.

    If you want an XP one you'd best not hang about too long.
  • banger9365
    banger9365 Posts: 1,702 Forumite
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    well looking at that list there is a lott of program that do work now with both versions and they say they do not(new versions of the programs)
    there or their,one day i might us the right one ,until then tuff

  • BritBrat
    BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite
    Non Vista Laptops are becoming more and more scarce.

    If you want an XP one you'd best not hang about too long.

    I recently bought a laptop with VISTA home basic on it, phoned up HP and asked if it was possible to downgrade to XP.

    They sent me (for free) XP Pro disk to make the change, not installed it so far but still handy to have.

    Before you go down the route of downgrading make sure you research any possible problems, in our case we would have to change the BIOS setting for hard drive from SATA to ? then after installing XP and SATA drivers reinstate the BIOS setting.

    And don't forget to download all XP drivers.
  • Poppycat
    Poppycat Posts: 19,899 Forumite
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    I downgraded my Dell laptop from Vista business to XP pro. Now laptop runs much more smoother and the batter last about 45 mins more, because the cpu isnt working as hard in XP than Vista
  • CHR15
    CHR15 Posts: 5,193 Forumite
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    I believe with Vista Business or Vista Ultimate you will have downgrade rights to XP Pro from Microsoft itself as part of its licensing agreement.
  • t-star
    t-star Posts: 11 Forumite
    What is all of this talk of "downgrade". From what i have seen of freinds and families machines that came with Vista and now run XP. XP is an upgrade....
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
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    t-star wrote: »
    What is all of this talk of "downgrade". From what i have seen of freinds and families machines that came with Vista and now run XP. XP is an upgrade....

    If "upgrade" was a synonym for "better" you may have a point. But alas it isn't. "Upgrade"/"Downgrade" have only ever been defined as "Newer"/"older" and I'm relatively sure XP is older than Vista and so is indisputably a downgrade from Vista by definition. I may be a pedant but I'm still right. :D
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  • euglycaemia
    euglycaemia Posts: 595 Forumite
    scrungebucket wrote: »
    Is there a site available for what is Vista and what is not vista compatable?
    I need to know that my printers and some software will run under Vista before I buy a vista laptop.

    Thanks

    All new version printers will be vista compatable

    You can also get updates on the printer website [for drivers/downloads]
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