"Mike Brannigan" <Mike.Brannigan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Gav" <gav@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%236SlA0c%23HHA.4568@xxxxxx Quote:
>>I have a Dell laptop which came with Vista Business preinstalled. I would
>>like to install XP on this machine instead and as I understand it Vista
>>Business or Ultimate can be downgraded to XP Pro. Can anybody tell me how
>>I go about doing this?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Gav
>
> All your questions about downgrade rights are covered in the PDF document
> at
> http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...rencesheet.pdf
>
> Basically - you can downgrade but YOU must source the media (The XP CD and
> License key) to enable you to do this.
>
> --
> Mike Brannigan
> Oke doke. So after reading that if I have an XP Pro CD I can install XP.
Then ring Microsoft to activate it explaining that the license I am actually
using is the Vista one not an XP one.
thanks for the link.
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