Monday, July 28, 2008

Downgrading vista to windowsXP

Fed up of windows vista and wanna downgrade to xp but seemingly confused about it ?! Here's a working solution:

  1. in usr xp cd and run the recovery console br pressing R at the first screen
  2. you may be asked for the administrator password for the vista installation.in case u don't run the admin account and it is disabled,enable and change it's password from vista first by
typing lusrmgr.msc in run and navigate to c:\users folder and disable turn off the account for administrator
now change the password for this account and start over to the recovery console
3.now at recovery console tyep the following commands

fixboot
fixmbr
cd\
ren windows winvista

these commands effectively will deactivate the vista installation and replace the bootloader of vista with that of xp

4.now u can proceed with XP installation as normal and later on delete the inactive winvista folder
5. move ur user files just locate c:\users and restore ur files to new locations

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