Off with Vista On with XP

[McQueenUK]

I have Vista pre-installed on a laptop I bought and am experiencing incompatabilities with some of the programmes I regularly use. Correction MOST of the programmes I use.
How easy is it on a laptop to get rid of Vista and load XP?

[kungpo]

We're finding that a lot of newer machines aren't supported with XP. or more specifically, you can't get XP drivers for some of the hardware. Last one we came across was an HP Pavillion laptop with Vista Home Premium (NVidia chipset).

[Agent]

Most (all?) Laptops have native SATA / IDE chipset support now meaning that extra software is rarely needed. If you need to put extra drivers on for it to work, provided they are out there (If your laptop if Intel based, you have nothing to worry about) its *very* easy with the use of nLite. There is no need to go downloading illegal versions with this stuff built into them

b0ned0me - Your post has been removed. If you talk about downloading warez programs again you will be banned. We have a ZERO tolerance policy on this.

[usxhe190]

better make sure your manufacturer provides XP drivers for all the hardware before moving to XP.