• Vista to XP
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I'm a complete novice at these sorts of things, but I just can't take it anymore. I got some shitty laptop thing with Vista installed in it. I swear to god it is the god damn worst thing ever invented- I can't run any fucking program without it asking to confirm every single time, can't delete my own folders without it reminding me several times that it may make some programs not work! just to have it say I can't delete it anyway because I don't have permission, the security is shit, the lay out is shit, the look is shit, it's basically unusable, fucking slow as shit, the whole thing is just fucking glitched up the ass, shitty, horrible crap. So I wanted to 'downgrade' to XP, the wonderful OS I have on this here PC. My question is, how do I do that? Like I said, I don't know shit about really anything technical. Yeah, rate me dumb. But I've had this POS for less than a year and it hasn't worked right since I got it, while I've had my XP for 4 and I've never, ever had a single problem with it.
XP is better then Vista, you are actually smart enough to know that.
Put in an XP install disc, reboot.
[QUOTE=Shugo589;16907531]Put in an XP install disc, reboot.[/QUOTE] I don't happen to have one of those, where could I obtain this magical disk?
[QUOTE=Detective P;16907564]I don't happen to have one of those, where could I obtain this magical disk?[/QUOTE] The store.
Xp is far less stable than Vista. What laptop is it? What are the specs, I see no reason you should be complaining, as you can turn UAC off. Every program works fine for me, and I'm using Vista X64, it's more secure than Xp, and the layout if simplified...
[QUOTE=Rankzerox;16907526]XP is better then Vista, you are actually smart enough to know that.[/QUOTE] ahahhaha
You need a disc to install xp. Without one you can't. You can buy it, or you're fucked.
in vista u need atleast 3gb ram i think. because i had 1gb it was shitty to i was going to downgrade to but i bought 4gb ram and now its running smooth. or just w8 for windows 7 that one is going to be a succes!
[QUOTE=geniouszx3;16907706]in vista u need atleast 3gb ram i think. because i had 1gb it was shitty to i was going to downgrade to but i bought 4gb ram and now its running smooth. or just w8 for windows 7 that one is going to be a succes![/QUOTE] Hah, no. 1GB is enough, 2GB is recommended. But you can go as low as 512MB.
[QUOTE=geniouszx3;16907706]in vista u need atleast 3gb ram i think. because i had 1gb it was shitty to i was going to downgrade to but i bought 4gb ram and now its running smooth. or just w8 for windows 7 that one is going to be a succes![/QUOTE] oh my
[QUOTE=j00g0t0wnd;16907724]Hah, no. 1GB is enough, 2GB is recommended. But you can go as low as 512MB.[/QUOTE] but then its go shitty with games... i had that problem to... but idk with 2gb
Just get Windows 7 RC. Free and better.
I had 512MB of ram with my older laptop with Vista and it ran great.(Vista ran great anyway). Do people always forget that it distributes the memory to what needs it? Anyway, as said, you need to buy a disc for XP. However, I no longer see them available in offline stores, but they are plenty online. One big problem is that Microsoft will stop support on XP not long from now, last I heard. I could be wrong, but I believe I've read it somewhere. If you just bought the computer recently, it should have come with a free Windows 7 Upgrade if it was eligible. I say wait for that because it will be available around October or so. It won't kill you to disable UAC for the time being. [quote=geniouszx3]but then its go shitty with games... i had that problem to... but idk with 2gb[/quote] Well duh. It'd be the same on XP. Why the heck are you counting games in for that?
[QUOTE=geniouszx3;16907753]but then its go shitty with games... i had that problem to... but idk with 2gb[/QUOTE] I've got like 700 something MB of RAM on it and it works below average for alot of games, but I'm not complaining over that. I just want to actually be able to use the damn thing. And even though it's basically a 2 fold improvement over my PC with XP on everything except the OS, it still runs slow as shit, even with under 1/4 of the HD space used up and very few processes running at any time. I'm just bloody tired of it.
[QUOTE=Detective P;16907857]I've got like 700 something MB of RAM on it and it works below average for alot of games, but I'm not complaining over that. I just want to actually be able to use the damn thing. And even though it's basically a 2 fold improvement over my PC with XP on everything except the OS, it still runs slow as shit, even with under 1/4 of the HD space used up and very few processes running at any time. I'm just bloody tired of it.[/QUOTE] 700MB of ram is way too little to run vista, you should have at least 2GB, don't listen to the requirements. That's why it's slow as shit. It's like running XP with 128MB ram. Vista, otherwise, is not terrible. UAC is what nags you about everything and that can be turned off. The only time Vista would be terrible is if you got Vista Home Basic from an OEM like dell, because I have it on my laptop and it's god-awful.
my word is if i was you for just 60$ 4gb ram.
[QUOTE=geniouszx3;16907978]my word is if i was you for just 60$ 4gb ram.[/QUOTE] OP's on a laptop
[QUOTE=Jimmy422;16907956]700MB of ram is way too little to run vista, you should have at least 2GB, don't listen to the requirements. That's why it's slow as shit. It's like running XP with 128MB ram. Vista, otherwise, is not terrible. UAC is what nags you about everything and that can be turned off. The only time Vista would be terrible is if you got Vista Home Basic from an OEM like dell, because I have it on my laptop and it's god-awful.[/QUOTE] That's me, I believe. I'm disabling UAC at the moment (the bloody thing decided today to not start up half the time and I have to go through some shitty start up repair thing, so restarting takes ages. Completely unrelated problem, I'm sure.) And as far as the RAM goes, the thing came with it. I'd upgrade one of these if I had the money to, but unfortunately I don't have 140$ for a fancy new video card and another, what, 60$ for the RAM. Far as I see moving to XP is a temporary solution, and get, idk, someone/something to make it work right past that to fix it up where it's actually usable.
[QUOTE=Detective P;16908064]That's me, I believe. I'm disabling UAC at the moment (the bloody thing decided today to not start up half the time and I have to go through some shitty start up repair thing, so restarting takes ages. Completely unrelated problem, I'm sure.) And as far as the RAM goes, the thing came with it. I'd upgrade one of these if I had the money to, but unfortunately I don't have 140$ for a fancy new video card and another, what, 60$ for the RAM. Far as I see moving to XP is a temporary solution, and get, idk, someone/something to make it work right past that to fix it up where it's actually usable.[/QUOTE] XP is $90, if you can live with vista for another couple of months you should wait and get Windows 7 OEM (Which is the same price) when it comes out, or torrent the RC now and give it a shot. I've seen that run on Pentium 3's with 96MB of ram.
Yeah, but didn't it take something like 10 minutes to boot and longer to do anything?
Learn to turn off UAC.
but when i had 1gb it taked like 10 minute to reboot pc but now like 50sec
[QUOTE=Detective P;16908064]And as far as the RAM goes, the thing came with it. I'd upgrade one of these if I had the money to, but unfortunately I don't have 140$ for a fancy new video card and another, what, 60$ for the RAM.[/QUOTE] You can get 2GB of DDR2 RAM for $25-30 at Newegg.
My opinion:
I ran Vista on an FX-55 with 1 Gb of DDR1 RAM. Gaming and everything. Perfectly fine, no slowdowns and service pack 0. Maybe it was just because the processor was great, but you can run Vista great with 1 gb.
get 7.
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