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Old 05-13-2008, 12:46 PM
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Default Ditching Vista: How To Downgrade To Windows XP

Here is an article I found very interesting

Ditching Vista: How To Downgrade To Windows XP -- Windows -- InformationWeek.



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Why go backwards? Mines 64 bit with no trouble finding drivers for everything I have, no errors, fast, etc.
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Some people have a lot of problems with Vista, and specially on the older computers that aren't able to cope with the requirements. Thanks for this post, I'm sure a lot of people will find it useful

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Vista is backwards. You shouldn't need the latest spec PC to check your email.
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vista is pretty! :-P
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vista is ok for me...
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I've been told by a friend of mine that Vista's pretty good, but that sometimes you have to go in and disable some of the services that are set-up by default.
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intesting but i would have called the post
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Intresting Signature stephen lol
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Stick out? It's bigger than the typical post...
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