XP Upgrade

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:47:26 -0500, "Bill Martin"
<martin_spamtrap@verizon.net> wrote:

> I'm not really asking them to support a downgrade, just to find some way to
> install XP in place of Vista.


You can't downgrade, as I said, but you can certainly clean install XP
if you want to. But before doing this, especially if you're talking
about a laptop, make sure that there are XP drivers available for all
your hardware.

Also be aware of the possibility that some hardware manufacturers may
consider that changing operating systems voids your warranty.



> All things considered, I'd rather give my
> money to Microsoft for XP than to Apple. It just seems Microsoft isn't too
> interested in taking my money. If necessary I'll buy Apple, but I'd rather
> avoid that if possible.
>
> Ah well, I'll work something out.
>
> Bill
> ----------------
> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
> news:0hcno3d5fdjnd996hrfrt7010u7ml8jemr@4ax.com...
> > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:15:36 -0500, "Bill Martin"
> > <martin_spamtrap@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >> If I buy a retail XP upgrade box, can I apply it to "upgrade" a Vista
> >> machine?
> >
> >
> > No, that's a downgrade.
> >
> >
> >> Or does Microsoft prevent that from working?
> >
> >
> > It's not just Microsoft. As far as I know, no software vendor supports
> > downgrades.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> > Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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If you have an XP upgrade box, you'd need the installation disc from an
earlier version of Windoze to qualify for installing it.

The catch 22 is, if you upgraded to Vista from a previously installed
XP, I think the software registration process cancels the installation
key for the XP version, I heard that somewhere.
Dweebs


Bill Martin wrote:
> If I buy a retail XP upgrade box, can I apply it to "upgrade" a Vista
> machine? Or does Microsoft prevent that from working?
>
> Bill
>
>