01-22-2008, 01:00 PM
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| Re: Questions from a laptop newbie
gary_hendricks_mail******.com wrote:
> Hi fenway55,
>
> I read with interest your attempt to 'downgrade' Vista home premium to
> XP. I had the same experience when I got my home Compaq laptop. Vista
> is in my opinion, an inferior OS to XP. Many, many people I know are
> dissatisfied with Vista and have attempted a downgrade to XP.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Gary Hendricks
> http://www.best-laptop-guide.com
David S Rubin wrote:
> gary_hendricks_mail******.com wrote:
>> Hi fenway55,
>>
>> I read with interest your attempt to 'downgrade' Vista home premium
>> to XP. I had the same experience when I got my home Compaq laptop.
>> Vista is in my opinion, an inferior OS to XP. Many, many people I
>> know are dissatisfied with Vista and have attempted a downgrade to
>> XP.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Gary Hendricks
>> http://www.best-laptop-guide.com
>
> Hi Gary,
> I basically prepared by reading what others had gone thru to
> downgrade. They were happy, but when I did diagnostic tests on my
> laptop, it was definitely running much slower after my initial
> tweaking in Vista. All the other laptops I bought, I made sure they
> had Xp on it. The Dell I ordered thru business, so my daughter could
> still have XP. She insisted on the brand. Back to downgrading, I find
> with Hp/Compaq, even as far back as Windows 98se, working on their
> towers, that if you formatted the hard drive and used a real copy of
> windows, to skip all their pre-install crapware, you had to do some
> real digging for drivers. in the end it was worth it. The average
> person probably wouldn't or couldn't do it. This laptop isn't my main
> computer and it's giving me a chance to learn to tweak Vista,which
> for me is fun. A lot of people don't have that luxury. By eliminating
> a few resource hogs and some features I have absolutely no use for,
> it hasn't taken me long to really speed it up. Networking to other
> computers is easy, it's when you want to network to Vista that's a
> pain, unless you go public. I have 6 computers in my own house and
> this one is the only one that hates to share :o) You can contact
> Compaq and if your model started as XP then went to Vista, I'm sure
> they'll sell you the restore image. They float on the torrents also,
> but then again you have to search for the rest of your drivers. If
> you do that, before you downgrade. Backup all your drivers so you'll
> remember wha'll you have. In my case the chipset has the ethernet
> driver and without that you can't get online to get the rest. Or you
> need to know your wireless adapter. I used google and had everthing
> but one difference. I have a Nvidia 7150m/640m chipset and in Xp they
> only offered 7150m/630m. It installed fine but the performance was
> just not there and nVidia isn't allowed to offer laptop drivers to
> custermers. You have to go through the manufactuer of your laptop. I
> found a lot of the Hp software useless and resource hogs also. I
> then went and did registry tweaks to have Vista behave the way I
> wanted it to. Hope that helps. I can give you some links I found, but
> they were for my general model HP. I'm sure you'll find them for
> Compaq models.  |