Re: Install XP on a Vista laptop? ... Now I'm in the market for a new laptop.... I'm curious about removing the OEM Vista and replacing it with my XP Pro ... If there are no XP drivers, then you can't install XP. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Install XP on a Vista laptop? ... Now I'm in the market for a new laptop.... I'm curious about removing the OEM Vista and replacing it with my XP Pro ... you have downgrade rights to install Windows XP. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: crashed Toshiba laptop w/Vista, how to re-install? ... The one I am using to try and install is actually an OEM.... I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop here and it had been dropped on the floor ... I put another hard drive in it and I went and tried to use a Vista Ultimate... DVD to install, it failed the keycode that's on the laptop. ... (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
Re: Quest VMCL. OK ... "Designed for Vista Premium" logo, and also described as "Media Center ..."Media Center Laptops" might all come with built in Hybrid Analogue/Digital ... for a laptop with Media Center functionality. ... No I did not upgrade my sisters laptop with those hardware drivers.... (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
Boot and general performance ... Checked out what is starting up and uninstalled any program that I no longer used and adjusted ones I still use to only load what they need when I actually click on them to start. ... I also stand the laptop on a cake stand so that air flow under and around it is maximised. ... so I tried to use SFC /SCANBOOT as I used to on XP but that option doesn't exist for SFC under Vista so I cant reboot and have a windows OS file scan be performed when no file is locked. ... Not daunted I thought about "repair install" which *CAN* be done on my desktop Vista Business if needed with the DVD there but the laptop came with Vista Ultimate 64 bit already installed and with a restore partition on it, no disk, as usual and I cannot actually DO a repair install because of that. ... (microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance)
