Just finished downgrading...

[joe62890]

my girlfriend's laptop to XP from god-awful Vista. She's had the laptop a little over 8 months and it's been nothing but problems. Between the 5 minutes it takes to start up or the 1-2 just to get any program loaded I think I might have thought about throwing it through the window at least once... maybe twice. Even with all of the updates Microsoft has been releasing, this is by far their worst OS to date. I remember when XP came out and yes it had bugs but by SP1 it was fine and dandy.

Any who, the swap was pretty easy. Used my Microsoft XP disc from my Dell I bought 3 years ago. Something is wrong with the CD because it's let me put XP on 5 different computers, 2 custom built ones at that. Took me about 5-6 hours to find all the drivers, start the install and reformat the hard drive. Everything runs prefect. It takes less than 30 seconds to hit the power button and be at the desktop.

My recommendation to everyone with Vista... downgrade. Get out while you still can!!! If any of you have Vista or are getting a PC with one and need help downgrading, let me know and I'd be more than happy to help.




Joseph

[Landshark]

.....or you could have just installed some more memory.


Vista's minimum requirement should be 3 gigs.

i'm running 4 gigs + 8 gig "Readyboost RAM" USB flash drive, no problems.

[joe62890]

Originally Posted by Landshark

.....or you could have just installed some more memory.


Vista's minimum requirement should be 3 gigs.

i'm running 4 gigs + 8 gig "Readyboost RAM" USB flash drive, no problems.

Running 2 gigs and I don't want to waste half a gig on an OS.

[RSVX]

Vista isnt that bad, surely you have kept it up to date?

I would be interested in see your windows experience scores as well as your system specs.

[joe62890]

Originally Posted by RSVX

Vista isnt that bad, surely you have kept it up to date?

I would be interested in see your windows experience scores as well as your system specs.

It's not that bad but it was kept up to date. The laptop is a HP DV6000 Special Edition.

I kept the laptop up-to-date and kept it free of viruses, spyware, and adware. It never seemed to be quick enough for me.

I'm going to assume it's because I built my desktop and it's a ton faster.

[RSVX]

6000? If I remember my number correctly, thats a pretty old laptop, and near EOL... That would explain a lot of your issues, as Vista is a resource hog.