re: downgrade to 2000
Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Louis
(37 messages posted)
I'm not going to offer anything definitively technical, the others who've replied
to you have much more knowledge than I do. However, I've tried installing OS's on
a PC that were not supported, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. You've got
nothing to lose by taking the XP over the Vista if you want to keep that particular
PC. You can load the XP and then create another partition and load 2K (or use another
HD) if that's your desire. Experiment with the 2K, download all the drivers you think
you may need to get it working with the devices in the laptop. Last resort, find
out which of the items, like the modem, that can be swapped out for one that is 2K
enabled. My current notebook was not made with Win95 in mind, yet other than an error
warning screen about the video board not working properly when I boot into Win95
(I ignore it), I've gotten the PC to function, sans audio which I've not spent time
looking for drivers that may enable it, I can live w/o the audio. On a desktop I
have that came only with XP, things are not working fully when I installed Win98.
In this case it looks like the problems I've encountered may not allow it to work
preperly with the installed video and sound boards. In this case I could change the
boards for ones that handles Win98 and XP, or keep experimenting with changing drivers
and hope to get lucky. Your only other option is eBay for a Win2K notebook, plenty
of them available. Research them to find one that was able to run on 2K and XP from
the factory so you know these systems will work. - Louis
On Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 11:41 am, phantom wrote:
>
>I just purchased a new Lenova laptop with Windows Vista. Many of the programs I
have
>won't work with Vista and I don't like anything about Vista. I don't want to spend
>hundreds of dollars on new software. Comp USA said they could downgrade to XP but
>I never cared for xp either even though I have it on one of my machines.
>What kind of problems will I encounter if I want to install 2000? It is a not an
>upgrade 2000 but a legal purchased system.
>
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- downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 11:41 am)
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