5 Responses to “What Are The Step-by-step Directions On How To Install Windows Xp On A Made-for-vista Computer?”

1. deanyour Says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 12:11 am

   You can go to the website of the manufacturer of your computer and hope that they offer Windows XP compatible drivers for your computer.
   Please, make sure you do the following before you proceed.
   (1) Determine whether you have ‘restore’ CDs that can completely restore your computer to its original factory settings OR your computer has a ‘hidden’ partition that provides this function.
   Make sure you’ve done whatever is necessary to ensure that you can restore you computer if you need to do so.
   (2) Acquire all the appropriate Windows XP compatible drivers and burn them to recordable CD or store them on a USB flash drive.
   (3) Download the Windows XP Service Pack 2 and/or Service Pack 3 (whichever you prefer) and save it to removable media.
   SP2, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai…
   SP3,http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai…
   (4) Determine what protective software you want to use to protect your computer from the dastardly villains on the Internet, download the installers for that software, and save them to removable media.
   If you’re going the free (gratis) route, here are some tools that may benefit you.
   . . . (i) SpywareBlaster,http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownlo…
   . . . (ii) SUPERAntiSpyware,http://www.superantispyware.com/download…
   . . . (iii) Spybot S&D,http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.h…
   . . . (iv) AVG Free AntiVirus (or comparable),http://free.avg.com/ww.download?prd=afe
   . . . (v) ZoneAlarm Free Firewall (or comparable),http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/c…
   (5) If stripping your computer of Windows Vista is also going to eradicate all the bundled software that came with the computer, you will need some ‘productivity’ software for those instances when you need to be ‘productive’.
   The following are all ‘free’ tools (gratis and libre). Choose the ones that you think you might want, download their installers, and save those installers to removable media.
   . . . (i) OpenOffice.org,http://download.openoffice.org/other.htm…
   . . . (ii) AbiWord,http://www.abisource.com/download/
   . . . (iii) 7-Zip,http://www.7-zip.org/
   . . . (iv) Adobe Acrobat Reader,http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/re…
   . . . (v) Adobe Flash Player,http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/…
   . . . (vi) The GIMP for Windows,http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-wi…
   (6) You may want to use non-Microsoft tools on the Web, like Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, and/or Seamonkey. Download the installers for the programs that you think you may want, and save them to removable media.
   Firefox and Thunderbird are here,http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/
   Sunbird is here,http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar…
   Seamonkey is here,http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
   Now all you need to do is set your computer’s BIOS to boot from the CD drive, pop the Windows XP installation CD into the CD drive, and reboot.
   Watch closely, because you need to pay attention during the first minute of the boot process to make sure that you ‘press any key to boot from the CD . . . ‘
   Evenutally, the Windows XP Installation Wizard will get to a point where it will ask you where you want to install Windows XP. If you have followed the advice in item #1, you can safely repartition the hard drive as you please, then choose which partition you wish Windows XP to reside on.
   From that point, it’s really just a matter of reading 8th grade level English information and prompts.
   When the installation of Windows XP is completed on your computer (if your copy of Windows XP has SP2 integrated into it), you may decide to upgrade it to SP3 with the installer that you downloaded in item #3.
   After that, you should install drivers, protective software, and any other software that you have elected to install — before you ever connect your computer to the Internet.

2. tommy845 Says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 4:25 am

   I do not recommend installing windows xp. Most current programs and games are compactible with vista. Recently Microsoft released SP1 for Vista that has fixed a lot of issues and now its performance is very similar to windows xp. Vista has most recent drivers for your computer components. Leave Vista. If you must install XP, consider creating a second partition for that operating system and run dual-boot. Make sure you have enough disk space. Don’t kick out Vista. Also there is a high change, that you have Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate. Your XP version is Home Edition, which is comparable to Vista Home Basic, very cropped version of windows. If you really need XP, get version Professional SP3.

3. Himpalap Says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 6:32 am

   Many laptops “made for VISTA” cannot run well on XP because there are no XP drivers for some of the hardware. If there are XP drivers for your Gateway laptop, Gateway would have them.
   By the way, it’s illegal to use the same windows license on two computers.

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   November 1st, 2009 at 6:59 am

   pop cd in
   follow directions

5. transitb Says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 12:43 pm

   i dunno
   read the instructions or something

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