Downgrade Vista Home Premium to XP Home Rob T. 6/26/2007 7:03:00 PM Can I downgrade to XP Home with an upgrade disk?

Re: Downgrade Vista Home Premium to XP Home XS11E <xs11e[ at ]NOSPAMyahoo.com> 6/26/2007 7:33:03 PM Rob T. <RobT[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > Can I downgrade to XP Home with an upgrade disk? Downgrade from what, please? If you're downgrading from Vista, yes, you can but you'll need to do a clean install so back up everything you want to keep first. If your XP Home is an upgrade disk you'll need the qualifying product such as Windows 98 or such, you'll be asked during the XP install for a qualifying product, insert the Win98 (or other qualifying product) CD and XP will find it and proceed with the install. -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

Re: Downgrade Vista Home Premium to XP Home XS11E <xs11e[ at ]NOSPAMyahoo.com> 6/26/2007 7:37:32 PM XS11E <xs11e[ at ]NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > If you're downgrading from Vista, yes, you can but you'll need to > do a clean install so back up everything you want to keep first. Oops, should have mentioned IF you did an upgrade to Vista and IF you selected the option to keep your XP files then you can go back to XP. -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

Re: Downgrade Vista Home Premium to XP Home "Ronnie Vernon MVP" <rv[ at ]invalid.org> 6/26/2007 7:48:24 PM Rob No, any downgrade install requires you to perform a clean install on a formatted hard drive. -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User "Rob T." <RobT[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:67CA0AEF-7C2D-4A07-B086-502E63F15B9F[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Can I downgrade to XP Home with an upgrade disk?

Re: Downgrade Vista Home Premium to XP Home brogshy 7/1/2007 7:02:00 PM I currently have Vista Home Basic, and I know that I (CAN) downgrade to XP Home using my computer's backup cds, but my question is: if at a later date I upgrade my computer a little more (enough so to run Vista better than it currently does) will the license activation accept me upgrading if I've upgraded once before? "Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Rob > > No, any downgrade install requires you to perform a clean install on a > formatted hard drive. > > -- > > Ronnie Vernon > Microsoft MVP > Windows Shell/User > > > "Rob T." <RobT[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:67CA0AEF-7C2D-4A07-B086-502E63F15B9F[ at ]microsoft.com... > > Can I downgrade to XP Home with an upgrade disk? >

Re: Downgrade Vista Home Premium to XP Home "Ronnie Vernon MVP" <rv[ at ]invalid.org> 7/2/2007 7:38:39 PM Brogshy Of course you can. The license is perpetual and can be activated an unlimited number of times. The only thing that cannot be done is installing the same license on multiple computers at the same time. -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User "brogshy" <brogshy[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3172D846-2CFE-4A98-A064-ECD297BE8263[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I currently have Vista Home Basic, and I know that I (CAN) downgrade to XP > Home using my computer's backup cds, but my question is: if at a later > date I > upgrade my computer a little more (enough so to run Vista better than it > currently does) will the license activation accept me upgrading if I've > upgraded once before? > > "Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote: > >> Rob >> >> No, any downgrade install requires you to perform a clean install on a >> formatted hard drive. >> >> -- >> >> Ronnie Vernon >> Microsoft MVP >> Windows Shell/User >> >> >> "Rob T." <RobT[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:67CA0AEF-7C2D-4A07-B086-502E63F15B9F[ at ]microsoft.com... >> > Can I downgrade to XP Home with an upgrade disk? >>