Revert back to windows xp from vista

Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Vista Setup. For deployment issues, please use the Windows Vista Deployment and Imaging forum. Sign in to vote. Question 1: Do I have the right for a license of Windows Xp? Question 2: Where can I find all the drivers for the right work of my laptop? I hope somebody could help me. Monday, July 14, AM. Sorry, but Vista Home Premium is not eligible for "downgrade rights". Hi, You will have to contact Toshiba to see if your purchase included downgrade rights and if it does, how you would about downgrading the same.

Is there something that I can do? I don't think Microsoft would like people using Unlicensed copies of their OS. Thanks for your help. I am sure to file my claim when the claim is available no matter how long I have to wait for it.

I save my receipts and correspondence meticulously. But please please please keep me in line for my cut of the upcoming class action suit.

I wonder if you are just a member or a Microsoft Employee trying to promote Vista. I would have no issues MS promoting Vista to customers who want to use it, but what MS and manufacturers are doing is to force users to use Vista. If I have paid for my machine I would want to us it the way I want to. Not how some other blokes want me to. How can someone force me to use something I don't want to?

I have been an age old fan of both Sony and Microsoft products. Unfortunately both messed it up for themselves. Now apparently I need a new wireless router no support for Vista , new versions of exisitng software, new games for the new laptop.

The age old adage If MS built cars you'd have to build new roads everytime If I was a car manufacturer I'd sell MS a car with a crank shaft to start the engine, oars to row it on the road, a nine volt battery for the lights with a world class easy on the eye interior.

Hey good user interface is all that matters for MS. Then perform a clean install of Windows XP. Thanks for your contribution Carey. However, I've been doing this stuff for 10 years and I know what I am talking about. The XP installation does not work because the setup cannot find the hard drive in the machine.

And the manufacturers "do not have the drivers" for the hardware they have supplied.. As I type this I am on hold with a Sony Vaio support and customer relations team. One of the guy just blurted out the fact that earlier this year they had a contract with MS to supply machines with Vista and not XP. Perfect fodder for a class action suit. I am now really contemplating a class action suit.

Any other users willing to join, reply to this post. Lets see how long this list can get. I'm guessing you'll have to install Vista once again before you can install XP. Once in, pick up all the information about the existing hardware devices you can. If not at Fujitsu, you could find those drivers at Intel based on the chipset you have. Once you have those, because you don't have a floppy drive try the instructions at this link.

In my opinion, SONY has a vested interest in DRM, since they own Colombia Pictures, and track record with their root kit disaster, which warrants investigation into a possible unhealthy relationship with Microsoft to build in DRM into the operating system.

This is an entertainment industry wide viewpoint as they are interested in digital rights, that is understandable. Is this why file copying and network browsing take so long? The fact that NO drivers were developed by SONY et All, for alternate operating systems such as windows XP, seems to indicate a deliberate action, and possible collusion with Microsoft to "Lock In" licenses with Vista and ensure that any attempt by the "Licensee" That would be me, the owner of the VAIO notebook to install any alternate operating system, that does not contain DRM, would be sure to fail and discourage the "Licensee" from making a change from Vista.

Any Attorneys have any ideas about such a case? Would this invoke any anti-trust laws? I used the N Lite program. After youve added the drivers I whole heartedly agree! The company should be held accountable under antitrust laws. When we want to buy a machine we are forced into getting vista as you have strongarmed all the manufactures into installing it on there machines..

Not unlike racketeering. I have Vista Home premium and would like to be "downgraded" to XP media center. I guess the usesrs could start a movement toward a class action suit against the company and get refunds and damages.. MY laptop is now useless after installing recomended updates on January 9, MS should pay me for all the time i put into the data that I am going to lose when I have ti wipe my disk and install XP.

I would have done backups but the wicdows back up program never worked right and the system where by I had to burn my own recovery disks also failed. The policy of not including a disk with every operating system installed is bad business. Dont give me the line that its up to th manufactures to provide the disks. Its your operating system and you have been gouging and ripping off the consumers for over 20 years now.. VISTA sucks. It came with ny new Toshiba laptop.

Everything I download, no matter how I configure my system, Vista will not allow it to run. If there is to be class action suit, sign me up. The bulk of the users are Vista home premium users.

Business editions can still be downgraded but what about the bulk of the users. Moreover how can MS say they are different products. For me it is MS providing OS. If the consumer is not satisfied then they should have an alternative. The alternative here is a previous edition and not a previous product.

Ronni Pedersen wrote:. A basic, but very attractive Dell C desktop purchased for my 86 year old father to monitor his share portfolio Add me to the class action. Vista sucks. Big time. My nVidia driver continually crashes. If I can't find XP drivers for the computer I bought only 1. It's two years that this problem has occurred, and the only solution that Windows Help or whatever it is called, tell me to go to the Microsoft and nVidia website and download the new driver.

I have already done this, and was so unhelpful. I continue to have screen flickers and have to wait for at least seconds to get back. It's worse than a running Windows ME. Got the Blue Screen of Death twice, and Vista was supposed to fix that.

All consumers should just boycott even buying computers for a few years and see how it affects profits. Almost a year later. Any luck? This is so frustrating. It is advertised that the sims 2 will work on vista but no. Not even in compatibility mode to xp. Loaded it on my reliable acer which had to be upgraded a little and looked forward to faster performance with crisper graphics. It crashed so bad I had to drop the machine hard I had no mouse and no keyboard.

I may not be a tech but not stupid. I agree why cant we chose our OS game designers obviously use XP to design games so why on new laptops as a comsumer don't we have the right to use the OS that gives the best reliability and performance. It wont change a faulty poor designed product. You'll have to dowload Windows XP compatible hardware drivers and install them.

Here is the web site:. Dell Installed Linux OS on laptops in Microsofts reaction, Vista, picked up from the foreigner who yelled, "We stalled! In reality he was trying to say, "We stalled and Linux OS came up! They claim that the users don't even know it's Vista! Here is where their claim falls apart;. Anyone who knows anything about a computer checks system information as soon as they get on a "new computer".

Vista runs web browsers faster than other OS's, unless the user was used to Mozilla, which had a prefetch plugin similar to Vista's superfetch Which by the way I hope they get sued for as well and then they wouldn't notice a difference, unless the machine had low ram Vista utilizes every last MB of it leaving none to run anything major, like any type of gaming application, excel, etc.

If you want to watch videos, you need a lot of updates and not just from microsoft! Well, if you're ready, just do these simple steps;. Unplug all power cords within 5 feet of you. Wait until the storm is close enough you hear the thunder and can see some lightning.

Put your monitor in a safe area. In another room is usually best, but not an adjacent room. Not so in a downgrade. Specifically, these downgrade rights lets owners of some versions of Vista replace it with Windows XP without having to pay for another license.

In effect, the license for Vista is transferred to XP. Think of it as a swap, Vista for XP, not as an extra license. By Microsoft's end-user licensing agreement EULA , you can't have both the Vista and its downgraded XP installed at the same time on the same or different machines. You have to pick: It's one or the other. To the vast bulk of users, though, "downgrade" is a synonym for reverting to an older version.

In that case, it simply means dumping Vista and returning to XP. So, what downgrades does Microsoft allow? You are, as they say, SOL. How do I downgrade? Install a copy of Windows XP Professional with the product key that came with the copy, and then when you hit the activation screen -- which is near the end of the installation process -- select the activate by phone option rather than the online method.