[bcab] Re: go back to Windows XP?

hi Graham, watch out carefully for issues surrounding SATA hard drives as well. 
 Many of the new 
SATA drives on machines with Vista installed are not supported by XP and in 
those cases you'll need 
specific drivers for them copied to a floppy disk, for XP's boot CD to be able 
to find them and 
install.

If you're totally blind this is inaccessible, if you're not then it's a matter 
of pressing F6 during 
the process at the stage where you are asked "press F6 if you need to install a 
third party RAID or 
SCSI driver".

Apart from this I was not aware that XP had any RAM limits and know someone 
running an XP machine 
with 4 gig RAM.

It's worth checking the whole hardware list in the existing installation, to 
check that you can get 
XP compatible drivers for all components before even attempting the job.

I think you'll find when successful that XP home will run much faster than the 
Vista installation on 
the same hardware.  It has lower memory requirements, less processses running 
and a much leaner 
core.

Leon Gilbert
Editor, www.vipnews.org.uk
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:02 PM
Subject: [bcab] go back to Windows XP?


Hi all.

I have a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop PC.

I am using it with Vista and, while it works OK, there really does seem to be 
no doubt to me that 
Vista is not quite as quick as XP in some situations, particularly when copying 
files.  I am also 
having some difficulty getting networking to work correctly.

I do have a spare copy of Windows XP Home and was wondering about downgrading 
to this, after making 
sure that all motherboard and other component drivers can be downloaded of 
course.

This PC has 3 GB of RAM.  I have heard that XP will not recognise this much 
RAM. is this case, and 
is this situation changed any with the introduction of XP Service Pack 3?

Regards

Graham
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