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    Downgrading to XP

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by whittems, Nov 9, 2008.

  1. whittems

    whittems Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've finally gotten too fed up with Vista to keep using it. I'm running on a T400, recently purchased, with a p8600 and 4.0 gigs of ram so it should simply run better than it does. Yet I find it hanging often and needing to be restarted to get it to work.

    Do people have any thoughts on what the best way to downgrade to XP would be? Right now I'm running Home Basic, so my two thoughts are to either simply buy a new version of XP on Amazon for about 180 or to upgrade to Ultimate for 200 and then get the Lenovo supported downgrade. Obviously buying it on Amazon would be a little bit cheaper, but would I have to deal with finding all the proper drivers on my own if that were the case? Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be easiest and most straightforward?

    Thanks in advance.
     
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    olorinuk Newbie

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    Please could someone help me.

    A friend said he could downgrade my daughters Acer aspire 7000 using my xp disk.

    He got rid of vista,and replaced it with xp,so far so good.

    But i dont have any sound or wifi.Could someone point me in the right direction for drivers,many thanks.
     
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    whittems Notebook Enthusiast

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    Wow that is a really good deal. Presumably though I would have to deal with tracking down the appropriate drivers on my own though? Not that I'm not willing to do that to save a hundred bucks, but I'd rather pay to have it done right than mess it up on my own.
     
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Not to be rude, but is this the Acer forum? I would suggest posting over there if you need help. I think you're much more likely to find it there. Have you tried Acer's or the hardware manufacturer's website for driver downloads?

    You needn't buy Ultimate to downgrade. Vista Business includes the right to downgrade to XP Pro as well. You can buy a Vista Business COA for about $60, which would give you the key. They key will activate it, but you'd need a disc to install it.

    Yes, the disc from NewEgg will work. All the XP drivers are available on Lenovo's site in the driver matrix.
     
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