Re: Backwards Compatibility (Windoze OS)

Some laptops revert to XP fine (like my one)

However, some of the new laptops have "vista-only" chipsets (like my
friends one, we spent 3 days looking for XP drivers before finally
giving up)

Since your laptop sounds like an old compaq one, it should be able to
run XP. Figure out what all the hardware is and check for XP drivers
beforehand.

Linux seems to work well with "vista-only" chipsets too, as well as
pretty much anything else.

Erin

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Perry Spiller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Backwards Compatibility (Windoze OS)
>
> Anyone got some clues about hardware issues for replacing, say,
> Vista with XP, or XP with W2k, or even jumping from Vista back
> as far as W2k?
>
> Would there be different potential problems with laptops vs desktops?
>
> A neighbour has a ComCrap laptop, (probably from DSE or Leemings),
> which runs like a dog in quicksand. From memory, the half a gig RAM is
> likely the biggest problem. The other crap that starts at boot-up, (Norton
> etc.,) is not helping.
>
> If she agrees, I'll do what I can to strip out a lot of the start-up items,
> that are hogging resources. If I fail, I might bring it to the next meeting.
> However, the going back from Vista question still seems worth thinking
> about.
>
> Would it work? I have a genuine XP CD, here, that I could bring along.
>
> Perry
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