re: Replacing Vista with XP on new laptop
Friday, February 9, 2007 at 8:55 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(6730 messages posted)
If you are within the return period allowed by the store, retailer, or manufacturer,
your best solution IMO is to return the laptop and then purchase one that has XP
installed.
If the laptop came with Vista Business or Vista Ultimate, the End User Licensing
Agreement for those two products gives you OEM "downgrade rights," which means you
are allowed to use XP Pro or XP Tablet Edition on the laptop you purchased in place
of the Vista that came with it. (You DO NOT have downgrade rights with Vista Home
Basic or Premium.) In order to take advantage of these downgrade rights, you would
have to acquire the media (CD) for XP Pro or XP Tablet Edition on your own. If your
old computer had XP Pro or Tablet Edition, you could try to use the old computer's
CDs to install it on your new laptop, but in most cases that will not work.
Or, you could contact the manufacturer and ask if they can supply you with the recovery
CD for XP Pro or Tablet Edition that would work with your laptop, which you could
then install under your downgrade rights.
If you do install XP Pro or Tablet on the new laptop, the copy of Vista that came
with the computer cannot be used in the meantime on any other computer, but of course
it can always be used on the computer it came with.
Assuming that the old laptop came with XP preinstalled from the manufacturer (OEM
license), the license for XP that came with your old laptop is tied to the old laptop
and cannot be transferred to any other computer.
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