The date and time was 5/20/2008 8:43 AM, and on a whim, stickerman
pounded out on the keyboard:
Quote:
> I bought a new computer with vistya installed. My business uses proprietary
> software that will only run on xp. Can I have vista removed and xp installed?
Removing Vista will most likely void your warranty.
As alternatives, you could possibly install a virtual machine on the
Vista workstation and install XP into it to run the software.
http://www.vmware.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...c/default.mspx
If you absolutely don't want Vista, I would buy a copy of XP along with
another hard drive. Remove the existing hard drive and store it for
warranty purposes (or leave it in the machine and just disconnect it),
install the new hard drive and install XP. The new workstation driver
disc may not have all the drivers needed for XP, so that might be a
problem also. You could dual boot as another option.
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Terry R.
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