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Advice - Best way to transfer settings to a Vista Clean install.
Will installing xp remove all this stuff and how will whats in the bios effect things. TIA General information about replacing Vista with XP: A. On an OEM If there are drivers, download them and store on a CD-R or USB thumbdrive; you'll need them after you install XP. 2. Check with the OEM - either from their

Dual-boot XP-Vista
After installing Vista I try and run a visual report from MS Project 07 and when Excel 07 opens no chart is displayed. It work before installing Vista. Any suggections? Did you upgrade Vista, do a clean install, or get Vista preinstalled? If you did an upgrade and Office was carried over from XP,

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
"tomjonesrocks" <tomjonesro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F2026DE8-73E3-41FE-8C4C-DA3D363B22D8@microsoft.com... For work I need a XP install to run a VPN client. I tried to do this using Virtual PC in Vista--but the whole thing was just too slow. So, I installed XP Professional on a slave hard

How to Get Windows XP After June 30, 2008
Bruce Chambers bchamb...@cable0ne.n3t microsoft public windows vista general algae wrote: I have just about finished setting up, tweaking, etc. a new Vista pc. This KB Article (not for the faint of heart) explains how to repair the Vista boot process after installing WinXP: Windows Vista no longer starts after

Wrong again Vista!
It juts *seemed* to be faster because Windowsxp continued copying after the progress windows already had been closed. * Can't install low level drivers that are not digitally signed on Vista x64. There used to be workarounds but they have stopped working since the recent updates. There is no reason to install

Problems in Office 2007 After Vista install
Vista should NOT be showing its System drive as "D:" in a dual-boot installation. It should show its system drive as "C:". Additionally, it SHOULD change the drive letter of XP to "D:" rather than "C:". This will happen without your permission each time you install Vista after installing XP.

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
Victor 1...@1.1i microsoft public windows vista general Have in mind that since you will be installing XP after vista it will disable the vista boot manager and you will only be able to boot into XP.. (the vista parition will still be there, you wont be able to boot into it though) you can fix this problem if you

Loading xp over vista
Another approach--better diagnostics but still fairly simple--would be to install Fiddler2 and see what it thinks is happening to IE's requests. Good luck Robert Aldwinckle --- Full opening post for new readers: After successfully installed the security update for IE7 for Windows Vista [KB944533], I receive the

Frontpage won't open after installing Expression Web!
On a vista computer which has a sata and an pata drive, I attempted to install windows xp on a separate 2nd partition on the pata drive (where vista was also installed on the 1st Terry R. ***Reply Note*** Anti-spam measures are included in my email address. Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.

No Web access after installing Update KB944533
it's probably time for a clean install of XP (wipe the drive)...but you'd be off on a couple of day tangental adventure. I've used CCleaner's (previously named Windows Vista? One of your problems is reference to the Personal Web Server. It is not supported on those O/S. Make sure you *uninstall* it and FP 2000.

Drive letters in XP and Vista both indicate C:\
Hi, As SP1 looms, it's probably time to go back to Vista after I tried it when on the Beta and RC releases and had a few problems with compatibility with other bits of kit. I am at the point where my XP Pro install is probably due a good blowing away and re-installing. I am aware that just upgrading XP Pro to Vista

Computer Failure
Just Windows/DOS. OK, so talk about just Windows/DOS MBRs. Even just for them, the MBRs are different. Let's revisit what I just posted, then: As said, the key point is: they all load the boot sector of the active partition. So when you install xp after vista, the key point is to restore the boot sector.

Computer Failure
PvdG42 p...@toadstool.edu microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "Anthony Gabreal" <AnthonyGabr...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message If its a defective Hardware Y will it install Xp in first place....???? I was unaware from your previous messages that you had installed XP.

Dual boot with WinXP
If you do a Lenovo PC System Recovery, after backing up any data you cherish to CDs or DVDs, you'll clean up Vista. If you still yearn for XP after that, you'll have at least practiced installing an OS, and can evaluate the chore of switching to XP more realistically. "ND Dad" <NoS...@Yahoo.net> wrote in message

Blank entries in Boot.ini file
PS You can't install a SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition on Windows XP or Vista. -- Ekrem Önsoy <mrajanikris...@gmail.com> wrote in message Hi, I am installing sql server 2005 in vista. I am not able to install. Giving error "install failed..." after continuing the wizard. I installed Sql server SP also.

Vista Performance
It is incorrect that "Vista does not allow dual boot". You can dual-boot Vista and another operating system. However, there are issues with XP wiping out Vista's System Restore points if you don't use a third-party boot loader and hide the operating systems from each other. It is also trickier to install XP after

Need advice on setting up a dual boot vista / xp?
Can you say Repair Install? The repair install for XP would potentially work for what, only a set number of key elements replaced, beyond that and you will be after support ends, ...... then what? OR, as I questioned, did Microsoft remove that requirement and the related *kill* in-built within XP and VISTA?

Vista installation hangs after first reboot.
Bought a Medion PC with Vista pre installed. As most of my software is not compatible with Vista, I want to instaal XP Home or on another partition and a boot manager either on the C and delete Vista completely. Problem is: XP install starts but ends with a bleu screen after some files are loaded Start op met de

Cannot install XP on a PC that has Vista installed.
When you were trying to do a clean Vista install to your 2nd hard drive, you were installing it from the running XP Pro version drive? "SBendiksen" wrote: I'm having issues trying to upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate. Upgrade advisor says my system can handle Vista just fine. I pop-in the DVD and it says it

Vista now needs CD to boot after installing XP on slave--suggestio
You could also try a Repair Install with Vista which is done exactly the same way as in XP: ***Repair Install Steps*** (can be used for Vista) MVP Doug Knox per second when the firmware screen with the pc manufacturer's name shows a few seconds after restarting***: The F8 options in Vista are the same as XP,