"Downgrading" To XP?

Hi Guys

I've recently purchased a Packard bell laptop, and whilst Vista looks great, it seems to prevent certain applications from playing for no real good reason.

I was wondering if there were any problems "downgrading to XP" with packard bell laptops, and whether this might solve my problem?

my current spec is:

Packard Bell MB88-P-003
Processor: Intel Dual Core T5450 1.66GHz
RAM: 2038 GB
Graphics: Nvidia 8600M GS 512 mb
OS: Vista home premium 32-bit

Thanks!

 

What applications aren't working?

If you do downgrade to XP, make sure that there is XP driver support for all your parts.

 

ah right, well photoshop is a being troublesome as well as a pc game i bought last week called Gears of War. They both become non-resonsive after around 40 seconds of perfect running.

 

Did you disable UAC? (Start > run > msconfig > ... ). That might help. However, I found that Acrobat Pro 7 was one of the few applications which refused to work under Vista so it could well be that your Photoshop shares the same bad habit.

John

 

Yes it is possible to downgrade to XP. You need a fresh CD of the OS, which you should just stick in and follow the prompts. Make sure you download all the drivers.

Here's a thread with detailed instructions: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=188992