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    Vista users now have downgrade to XP option?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by benjasmine, Sep 23, 2007.

  1. benjasmine

    benjasmine Notebook Guru

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    benjasmine, Sep 23, 2007
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    I found out some new info...and I realized that it has no use to most people...

    1. this only applies to Vista Business and Ultimate users...
    2. you need to have a legal key of Windows XP Pro, a previously used key is OK.

    so basically, this is for people who have a legal XP key and don't want a clean XP install on their new Vista machine...

    Microsoft Vista Downgrade Instructions:
    http://docs.ncix.com/artman2/uploads/1/Vista-Downgrade.pdf

    source:
    http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index....id=1408353&pagenumber=1&msgcount=24&subpage=1
     
    benjasmine, Sep 24, 2007
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    ng12345 Notebook Consultant

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    Hmm -- actually according to some other information it looked like they provided you with the xp serial as well:

    http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2007/09/24/downgrade-your-vista-to-xp/

    And how is this not a clean XP install?

    Also many Vaio notebooks ship with vista business, so this is probably useful to a lot of people on the forum
     
    ng12345, Sep 25, 2007
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