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How-To Geek Forums Topic: Windows Vista http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Windows Vista en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:50:35 +0000 Scott on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3/page/2#post-45653 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:56:40 +0000 Scott 45653@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ You feel better now? The only piss around here is you, so off you go. Fly, fly fly little starling. Boohoo, you didn't get what you wanted, when you wanted it. So many others have been helped, you're bitter. See a therapist. pepsi666 on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3/page/2#post-45650 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:48:46 +0000 pepsi666 45650@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Well, I now have XP Pro on my laptop, I have all the drivers to run my laptop, it is now running very well, and I am very happy with it I dont need a back up disc for Vista, I have my XP pro disc, As I said, I never put anything on Vista, so there was nothing to back up Just like to make a few comments though, then I'm outta here I asked a simple question, I end up with useless information telling me how great Vista is, I dont really care on YOUR opinion of Vista, I didnt ask for opinions I have my topic hijacked by useless inane comments (open your own dam topic, dont nick others) I came here because I thought I would get intelligent replies, instead I found the majority of replies, useless, pointless, of no help at all I ended up going to Yahoo answers, I got 1 reply which answered and told me exactly how to blow that Vista away, yes 1 answer, thats all it took, HERE I got shedloads of replies, but virtually none which actually helped me, this is supposed to be a geek website, its more like a bloody playground, for idiots, you post replies just so they can be seen, but are completey useless to the asker Now there will be no point in replying to this topic, it is now closed and its at an end, I have no further questions to ask here (not that I would get a decent reply, but I know I would get everyones opinion I dont want vista, I hate Vista, I dont care how old XP is, I dont care how fast Vista is, I dont care how slow XP is, It is a operating system I want to use, that is MY opinion Maybe when someone else asks for help, it will be given, the asker isnt interested in your opinions, they want a plain, simple reply and help with their problem, they dont want their topic hijacked by numbskulls asking piontless, stupid qurestions I dont care that your first computer was a Z1, I dont care that you had a shit holiday, I dont care your cat/dog/mother/wife has died, I dont know them, I dont want to know them, I dont care about any of your problems, I didnt come in here to see or hear about your opinions, problems, what sex your first born was, what kind of kids you have, I dont care that you have 24 hours to live, I dont know you, I DONT want to know you I'm selfish, I just care about the problems I have I think the saying goes...................Dont piss down my back and tell me its raining whs on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45224 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:30:31 +0000 whs 45224@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Rick, You are, of course, right. My first machine was a <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Zuse-Z-11.jpg">Z11</a> and I loved it - in 1958! raphoenix on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45218 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:53:46 +0000 raphoenix 45218@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ @whs, It's just "different strokes for different folks" I guess. My wife, who keeps track of our meager finances, runs "her" machine on Win2K and won't let me dare change it as she feels comfortable with the O/S and her programs. I run XP3 on the network and I'm not about to invest our meager savings in a big O/S Switchover when I can run the "heck" out of these machines and beat any Vista configuration hands down in both speed plus agility. I'll leave that switchover for my wife's second husband to do after I'm gone (LOL) (LOL). Kindest Regards, Rick P. ♥ :) whs on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45201 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:44:29 +0000 whs 45201@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Rick, I was in France for two and a half weeks. All is well. I hope pepsi can deal with it. On the link I posted, people voiced a lot of problems. But I guess each case has it's own challenges. I still don't understand why people would want to go back to this old, dusty XP. Vista is so much easier, more elegant and mostly faster. But there is a place for everything. raphoenix on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45198 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:28:31 +0000 raphoenix 45198@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ @whs, I haven't seen you post in awhile. Hope all is well. Was beginning to worry. The drivers are all their and fortunately the Chipset is Intel. Unfortunately pepsi666 says "(I'm not that PC literate)" so he is going have to have a friend in UK help him or have to live with something he absolutely despises and can't use. A bit unfair but that appears to be the situation. Kindest Regards, Rick P. ♥ :) whs on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45194 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:06:25 +0000 whs 45194@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Pepsi, maybe all the drivers are where Rick says they are. But you may want to read this before you venture any further <a href='http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=gen&c=us&l=en&cs=&k=inspiron+1720+driver+xp&cat=all'>http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=gen&c=us&l=en&cs=&k=inspiron+1720+driver+xp&cat=all</a> I have seen a lot of misery in the recent past because of XP driver problems on machines designed for Vista. And keep your Vista option open just in case the XP installation fails because of missing drivers. raphoenix on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45192 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:55:15 +0000 raphoenix 45192@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ @ALL, Before the discussion gets out of hand, the Dell Inspiron 1720 XP drivers are here. Just select XP instead of Vista in the first dropdown box. <a href='http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=WW1&osl=EN&catid=-1&impid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=INS_PNT_PM_1720&hidos=WLH&hidlang=en&TabIndex='>http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=WW1&osl=EN&catid=-1&impid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=INS_PNT_PM_1720&hidos=WLH&hidlang=en&TabIndex=</a> If (pepsi666) has a genuine copy of XP on a CD, it would be fairly simple to revert his machine back to XP. @pepsi666, (1) Have you ever done a Clean Install of XP before ?? (2) Have you ever made a sliptream CD before ?? Please post back. Kindest Regards, Rick P. ♥ :) jd2066 on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45181 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:01:48 +0000 jd2066 45181@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ You need drivers for Windows XP to install it. The disc you have may only have Windows Vista drivers. Windows Vista drivers can't be used in Windows XP. pepsi666 on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45176 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:46:41 +0000 pepsi666 45176@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ I dont have anything to back up, I havent done anything with it, just fired up the laptop, then saw it was vista, tried getting rid of it, failed miserably I have all the driver saved to a disc (including the disc it came with, labeled DRIVERS) So it should be pretty straight forward I dont want a partition to save Vista, I dont need the recovery disc that I can reload Vista All I want to do is see my version of Vista diappear into laptop hell Is that so hard to ask for ? A simple step by step guide to unistalling Vista and installing XP Pro Scott on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45121 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:21:20 +0000 Scott 45121@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ balaji71, Your OP is in the Microsoft Office forum. balaji71 on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45120 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:00:48 +0000 balaji71 45120@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ i've got my own problems. i hope someone here will help me. sorry to post my q here pepsi666 but my fresh post got deleted by admin. i hope you'd understand and help me out. i'm using vista ultimate and office 2003. when i was using xp, o2k3 worked fine. but now everytime i click my mouse and select something, or do any activity with keyboard (like win+r, win+e etc) windows pops up a message box saying "windows is configuring microsoft office professional edition 2003". the box does some configuring (god only knows what!) and then disappears after a minute. this happens everytime i do some activity (mouse right click or win+e or starting firefox or calculator or just about anything). all my o2k3 setup files are in c:\msocache. i've tried using ccleaner to wipe out all traces but this annoyance persists. office 2003 repair also didn't solve my problem. though my system is working fine, but it's imaginable how annoying it is to withstand the face of "configuring..." everytime you start doing your innocent wordprocessing or spreadsheet calculations. can anyone please help me out? balaji71 on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45117 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:51:38 +0000 balaji71 45117@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ oh, btw pepsi666, i use vista too. had to. forcefully. because i found out that vista boots up in more than a minute's less time and faster than xp. though i personally like xp to be more stable (if used properly). vista though is hell. the only reason i'm putting up with it is because of its faster running times. apps start faster and run faster. xp was darn slow. but hey, i'm still experimenting with vista. and i'll definitely switch back over to xp if i end up disliking vista. balaji71 on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45116 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:48:08 +0000 balaji71 45116@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ you can use acronis disk director suite 10 bootable cd. you've to make one within vista. first install acronis (10 not 9). create a bootable rescue disk within acronis. then boot your laptop using this acronis cd. if it detects a primary partition, you're in luck. just delete the partition. (I HOPE YOU'VE ALREADY BACKED UP TO YOUR THUMB DRIVE OR DVDRW OR CDRWs ANY DATA YOU HAVE IN VISTA!) now create a new partition the size you want and choose ntfs. commit your changes. remove the acronis cd and replace it with your xp bootable install cd. i hope you get success. pepsi666 on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45097 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:37:50 +0000 pepsi666 45097@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ I just hate Vista, There is nothing that I like about it, I just want rid of of it My Laptop is a Dell, Inspiron 1720 I know others think Vista is great, I dont, its a case of personal choice I suppose Just a simple step by step process to see it go to hell, where I think it belongs, PLEASE raphoenix on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45060 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:59:27 +0000 raphoenix 45060@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ pepsi666, What is the make and model number of your computer ?? Kindest Regards, Rick P. ♥ :) VistaSun on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45040 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:16:14 +0000 VistaSun 45040@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ I suppose you could use Darik's Boot and Nuke to wipe the hard drive clean and leave it so another operating system could be installed. <a href='http://www.dban.org/'>http://www.dban.org/</a> Lighthouse on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45013 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:53:30 +0000 Lighthouse 45013@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Come on. How long have you used it? bcolin on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45012 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:52:34 +0000 bcolin 45012@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ if you have an XP cd you can try <a href='http://www.removevista.com/remove_uninstall_delete_windows_vista_xp_c.html'>This</a> and dont do step 9. bcolin on "Windows Vista" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-3#post-45011 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:50:08 +0000 bcolin 45011@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ vista i suppose :)