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| | Possible to swap Vista Ultimate (64) Licence for XP Pro (64) licence Hi, I heard is is possible under some circumstances to swap a Vista licence back to an XP licence and would like to investigate if it is possible for me to do this. My reasons are the poor networking performance of Vista cf XP and also the fact that none of the MS development systems I am using (VS6 and VS2003.NET) will run on Vista. Thanks in advance for any advice, Mike |
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| | Re: Possible to swap Vista Ultimate (64) Licence for XP Pro (64) licence Maybe this will help. http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...rencesheet.pdf Mark "Mike" <mikedavies621@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:efd0b3dd-d319-4bc0-a4bf-de0e941d293e@xxxxxx Quote: > Hi, > > I heard is is possible under some circumstances to swap a Vista > licence back to an XP licence and would like to investigate if it is > possible for me to do this. > > My reasons are the poor networking performance of Vista cf XP and also > the fact that none of the MS development systems I am using (VS6 and > VS2003.NET) will run on Vista. > > Thanks in advance for any advice, > > Mike |
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| | RE: Possible to swap Vista Ultimate (64) Licence for XP Pro (64) licen Some OEMs have that downgrade option in place for Business and above, but not MS! Contact the computer Manufacturer. -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia "Mike" wrote: Quote: > Hi, > > I heard is is possible under some circumstances to swap a Vista > licence back to an XP licence and would like to investigate if it is > possible for me to do this. > > My reasons are the poor networking performance of Vista cf XP and also > the fact that none of the MS development systems I am using (VS6 and > VS2003.NET) will run on Vista. > > Thanks in advance for any advice, > > Mike > |
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| | Re: Possible to swap Vista Ultimate (64) Licence for XP Pro (64)licence > Maybe this will help. Quote: Thanks for your reply. That does seem to explain the situatio pretty clearly. My problem is that I want to run XP64 and my only licenced media is XP32. Is there any way around this do you know or do I just have to go out and buy another copy of XP ? Thanks, Mike |
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| | Re: Possible to swap Vista Ultimate (64) Licence for XP Pro (64) licence You have to buy a copy. It's like a hundred and change at Newegg for the OEM version. Mark "Mike" <mikedavies621@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:134b99c9-0dc1-47af-9b6a-bee61b7a1476@xxxxxx Quote: Quote: > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for your reply. That does seem to explain the situatio pretty > clearly. My problem is that I want to run XP64 and my only licenced > media is XP32. Is there any way around this do you know or do I just > have to go out and buy another copy of XP ? > > Thanks, > > Mike |
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