Of course, you will lose all you settings and documents. It's not going to
be a downgrade, but a total clean install.
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> Oscar <lostlilgecko@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> well it turns out i was lured into trying the windows vista home
>> premium edition on my computer i previously had winows xp media
>> center edition on my computer well now the windows vista trial
>> period is over and i didnt quite like it, so im not gonna buy the
>> product key for it, but now it wont let me acess my desk top or
>> the start menu at all, when i turn it on it simply goes straight
>> to a black desk top with only 4 options 1) upgrade to windows
>> vista, 2) re enter product key, 3) purchase product key online and
>> acess computer to minimal web acess to purchase key online 4) and
>> well the 4th i cant remember but something dumb, so now im
>> wondering what am i to do in order to remove it, cuz i cant acess
>> my desk top or my start menu, and when i put my old windows xp
>> media center edition disk in drive it wont pick it up either. can
>> anyone help
>
> Put the Media Center CD in the drive and turn off the computer. Turn
> it back on and do whatever you need to do to enter the BIOS (hit the
> delete key or one of the function keys or whatever), make sure that the
> boot order is: Floppy (if you have one), CD and then hard drive. Save
> and exit the BIOS and when you see the prompt Hit any key to boot on
> CD, hit a key.
>
> Setup will start and, when you're offered the opportunity delete the
> partition where Vista is installed then follow the prompts and MCE will
> install.
>
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