Downgrading from Vista to XP

[articpenguin]

So my cousin has a Toshiba laptop loaded with Vista. She keeps telling me it's so slow, so looking into it I find out it has only 512 mb RAM. Go figure. Now I figured I might as well make it faster for her, so does anybody know a way to downgrade Vista to XP in a easy, non time consuming way?

[Nautsabes]

Format the HDD?

[OCELOT320]

buy more ram

[articpenguin]

[QUOTE=Nautsabes;20420335]Format the HDD?[/QUOTE]
Kinda want to avoid that.

[4Chan User]

Download some RAM after a clean install.

[Reapaninja]

^ hurr durr funny man is so funny

@OP do you have XP already? if not it'd be cheaper just to upgrade the RAM

[4Chan User]

[QUOTE=reapaninja;20420627]^ hurr durr funny man is so funny

@OP do you have XP already? if not it'd be cheaper just to upgrade the RAM[/QUOTE]

What?

[SBII Gunz]

Put all files on an external and reformat.

[thegrb93]

[QUOTE=4Chan User;20442281]What?[/QUOTE]
You don't download RAM -_-

And OP.
Your cousin is a She?

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If this is your situation, there is no fix. XP or Vista

[DoomMarine23]

[QUOTE=articpenguin;20420323]So my cousin has a Toshiba laptop loaded with Vista. She keeps telling me it's so slow, so looking into it I find out it has only 512 mb RAM. Go figure. Now I figured I might as well make it faster for her, so does anybody know a way to downgrade Vista to XP in a easy, non time consuming way?[/QUOTE]

Either put some ram in it, or back everything up; get an XP OS disk and put in at the start of bootup.

I went from Win7 to XP; I know how it is.

[[EG] Pepper]

Cram a couple of gigs of ram in there.

[GreenDolphin]

If you have a spare XP CD and XP key, format the hard drive, create a partition (3GB will do fine if you have a 50+ GB hard drive) and install the operating system. You cannot downgrade without formating the hard drive and losing all data on it.
If not, then just upgrade your RAM.

[Crit-Sandvich]

[QUOTE=thegrb93;20443298]You don't download RAM -_-[/QUOTE]

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[thegrb93]

[QUOTE=Crit-Sandvich;20444318]thatsthejoke.jpg[/QUOTE]

Not a very funny one.

[Legend286]

You could try disabling aero and superfetch (even though in most cases it's a helpful thing to have enabled) which could boost performance, aero isn't too good for older computers, especially laptops.

[articpenguin]

Basically, she (yes, she is a SHE) wants me to make it faster, defragging didn't help. I knew it was the RAM all along but she dosen't want to spend money on it.

[Panda X]

[QUOTE=articpenguin;20520538]Basically, she (yes, she is a SHE) wants me to make it faster, defragging didn't help. I knew it was the RAM all along but she dosen't want to spend money on it.[/QUOTE]

Buy it for her?

[Mister TBD]

What is all of this shit about formatting the hard drive? Install Windows XP to a another folder such as Windows2 then literally copy and paste all of the documents from the Vista installations user folders. Then while in Windows XP delete Windows (the vista installation) and the Vista's user folder.

[Dr Egg]

Even XP is a bit tight nowadays on 512MB of RAM. I'd look into getting extra RAM and if you can get 2GB easily/cheaply then stick with Vista, otherwise put XP on it. Though make sure the drivers are out there.

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Or if you have a spare 7 key or something use that with 1GB if you feel lucky