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Windows Vista Possible to add XPPro to a Vista Basic laptop?

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by masonite, 2007/08/09.

  1. 2007/08/09
    masonite

    masonite Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I'm organizing a new laptop for a friend. I'd rather give her a machine with XPPro than Vista, but I haven't been able to buy a notebook with XP, so Vista (Home Basic) it'll have to be.

    My question: Can I add XPPro to this new laptop? If it's possible, I'd like the machine to boot into XP as default.

    Advice would be appreciated :)
     
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    PeteC

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    masonite

    masonite Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks PeteC.

    I saw that site before I posted here and decided it looked a little too tricky and hoped that someone here might know of an easier solution :)

    I'm considering either giving it a miss altogether or maybe reformatting the new laptop and installing XP Pro.

    Appreciate your input...
     
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    r.leale Lifetime Subscription

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    Another Luddite? Why not give her a Vista machine up and running. We should look to the future Masonite, and if she is fairly new to computers she will have no anti-Vista bias!

    Roger:D
     
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    PeteC

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    Roger

    You have to bear in mind that as soon as you recommend a computer and OS to a friend you immediately become their source of troubleshooting/maintenance :) Much easier if you are using the same OS.
     
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    masonite

    masonite Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks guys. Several points come to mind: first, I'm a tech and I build and service pcs. Second, my customer is actually my first ex-wife, and she knows zip about OSs, other than how to play games on the XPP desktop I built her.

    I know that Vista isn't going to do her any good; shucks, I personally consider Bill Gate's latest idiot-savant child a pain in the butt for all the reasons that a quick tour of the internet will find 10,000 other sufferers moaning about.

    But I won't rave. Suffice to say that I run it on one of my workshop machines and I don't like it. I'm not a luddite but I don't like it. All we wanted was a better XP and what we actually got was a software nightmare; another overblown anachronism like ME, but with more bugs than a sick maggot.

    As I said, I think my best plan will be to wipe the HDD of Vista Basic and install XPP. The notebook should come with a set of recovery CDs, so if it doesn't work I can always revert.
     

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