Re: XP back to Win2000 Pro

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Jason McClellan (jason_mcc_at_obsfucated.myrealbox.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:56:22 -0400

You can't do a 'downgrade' install by putting the CD in while running
windows. You can only do a clean install by booting from the windows CD or
boot floppies. This is a destructive process, you will have to reinstall
all your software after this.

Also, consider if it is worthwhile. I have found that the performance
difference between XP and 2000 is not very large, you will not get a major
speed improvement by switching from XP to 2000 in my experience. You may be
far better finding out what is the hardware bottleneck and doing a small
upgrade - it may be as simple as some additional RAM. For example, if you
have only 64M of memory, it's going to be very slow no matter how 'fast' the
system is. $60 worth of memory could make the world of difference!

"Victor" <sigmachi1012@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:14dd01c42677$add9eac0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm trying to to help a friend uninstall XP on her
> computer and put Windows 2000 Pro back on it. When I try
> to run the setup from the Windows 2000 Pro disk I get a
> pop up that since she has a newer version of Windows on
> the computer setup for Windows 2000 Pro is disabled. Is
> there a way to get around this? Her computer is to slow
> for XP.
>
> Thanks

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