OT Windows Vista

I have installed Vista Ultimate on my lapdog and want to go back to XP
pro as I don't like it. Problem is when I put the XP pro CD in, and it
starts, the option box to install it is greyed out and unavalable. How
can I reinstall it? Do I need to format the disk and start again?

Thanks

 

Pretty much, yes. MS OSs don't really do "downgrades".

 

Aye, save anything you want saving.

Download the XP drivers for your lapdog, eg - chipset, audio, wireless, vga,
lan and save them where you saved your other important stuff to.

Then boot from your XP cd, delete the fista partitions and start clean - its
the only way - bar taking off and nuking the entire site from orbit.

 

And be aware that when you try to burn the Users folder to a DVDR it
may well not *actually* burn most of it.

Or it didn't when I upgraded my Dads PC from Vista to XP. Opps.

Still - at least he had most of his stuff backed up elsewhere. My Mums
email got lost though - as did some of her stuff.

Phil.

 

I'm persevering with it. The bit that fucks me right off is having to
buy the latest version of software to get it to run on Vista.

Still I skipped From Win2K to Vista missing out XP, so at least I
didn't have to buy more versions.

I just can't make the break full time over to Linux, reminds me too
much of work.

P.

 

Nice, thanks for that, I knew about the administrator options, but not
the compatibility mode. There is a Vista KB patch update that does
increase compatibility with several tools which I have put on, but
some programs won't even install once they have done a version check.
Got to keep that revenue stream somehow ... !

Cheers,

Paul.

 

I like your lateral thinking, but in the nicest possible way .... ****
that !

I've enough OS's going around my head without thinking about MAC's

Hmm actually, MAC OSX is Unix derived isn't it.

I give up.

P.

 

Never tried that.

It's exactly the fucking same. Admittedly on a Mac it fits better
with the rest of the UI.

 

Dunno, I've never had an unstable and slow iTunes on any computer.
Works fine on all the XP machines I've got and seemed to be fine on
Mac OS Leopard for the whole couple of days I used Mac OS-X for. This
was with a library of about 600 albums, all with artwork, and ripped
by my own fair hands in iTunes.

I think it always feels a bit odd to Windows users because of where
things like the options and preferences are. In OS-X, they're in
those places in every program so it all fits.

 

Like I said to BGN, I've never had a problem. Mind you, I don't have
any slow computers either.

 

That doesn't sound right.

My scroll wheel works fine and the list scrolls as fast as I can flick
the wheel in all the display types, including cover flow, which is the
one I'd expect to be slow.

I'm running version 7.6 of iTunes on a 2.4Ghz core 2 duo Macbook Pro +
XP Pro.

 

Check heading. DRM issues in Vista is my guess.

 

Partly. Also butt-covering ("we haven't tested it under x so we are not
going to allow it to work"). Also if the installer only knows about
Windows versions up to XP it'll get very confused when it gets told a
version number it doesn't recognise! I've seen installers that check
for specific versions and refuse to work unless it is those specific
versions..

For stuff like anti-virus tools or systems-level stuff (firewalls,
disc-scanners etc) it's also understandable since different versions of
Windows do things in different ways so a version designed for Win2k
almost certainly won't work as expected on Vista. Our test guys at the
moment are testing all our products on Vista and some of them won't
even install because Vista throws a wobbly at the (very standard)
install method involved!

Phil.