how downgrade vista xp

Upgraded to Vista 5342- 32bit recently It’s running too slow - needs to know how to downgrade to XP pro again safely

"hit" wrote in message

Upgraded to Vista 5342- 32bit recently It's running too slow - needs to know how to downgrade to XP pro again safely

You can't downgrade. The best you can hope for is to rename your existing Windows directory and then install Windows XP onto the drive.
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Reformat . No downgrading here
-- Peter
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Upgraded to Vista 5342- 32bit recently It’s running too slow - needs to know how to downgrade to XP pro again safely

Not possible, for the partition on which Vista 5342 is installed and boot from your XP cd and do a reinstall. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"hit" wrote in message

Upgraded to Vista 5342- 32bit recently It's running too slow - needs to know how to downgrade to XP pro again safely

hit wrote:

Upgraded to Vista 5342- 32bit recently It’s running too slow - needs to know how to downgrade to XP pro again safely

Simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be offered the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)
HOW TO Install Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

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