Vista - Roll back to XP

Having installed Vista I find that is does not work with:
1. Our accounts system - Sage
2. Our CRM system - ACT!
3. Our shopping cart system - Actinic
4. Our design package - Quark

The final straw was today when I spent £37 on the Benq help desk trying to
get our digital project to operate on the laptop to finally be told it will
not work under Vista.

I don't care how pretty it looks, as an operating system it doesn't work.

How do you roll back from Vista to XP without having to rebuild a machine?
Has anyone done it??

Any advice gratefully received.

How to revert to Windows XP after you upgrade a Windows XP-based computer to Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933170/en-us

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"IanB" wrote:

Having installed Vista I find that is does not work with:
1. Our accounts system - Sage
2. Our CRM system - ACT!
3. Our shopping cart system - Actinic
4. Our design package - Quark

The final straw was today when I spent £37 on the Benq help desk trying to
get our digital project to operate on the laptop to finally be told it will
not work under Vista.

I don't care how pretty it looks, as an operating system it doesn't work.

How do you roll back from Vista to XP without having to rebuild a machine?
Has anyone done it??

Any advice gratefully received.

IanB wrote:
> Having installed Vista I find that is does not work with:
> 1. Our accounts system - Sage
> 2. Our CRM system - ACT!
> 3. Our shopping cart system - Actinic
> 4. Our design package - Quark
>
> The final straw was today when I spent £37 on the Benq help desk
> trying to get our digital project to operate on the laptop to finally
> be told it will not work under Vista.
>
> I don't care how pretty it looks, as an operating system it doesn't
> work.
>
> How do you roll back from Vista to XP without having to rebuild a
> machine? Has anyone done it??
>
> Any advice gratefully received.
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Maybe the following article will offer some ideas:

(933168) How to restore a computer to a
previous Windows installation after you install
Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168/en-us

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"IanB" <IanB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news8FDB97A-CA33-4CC9-8AE4-49B47BEA137B@microsoft.com...
> Having installed Vista I find that is does not work with:
> 1. Our accounts system - Sage
> 2. Our CRM system - ACT!
> 3. Our shopping cart system - Actinic
> 4. Our design package - Quark
>
> The final straw was today when I spent £37 on the Benq help desk trying to
> get our digital project to operate on the laptop to finally be told it
> will
> not work under Vista.
>
> I don't care how pretty it looks, as an operating system it doesn't work.
>
> How do you roll back from Vista to XP without having to rebuild a machine?
> Has anyone done it??
>
> Any advice gratefully received.


And another point is worth to note that Vista is slower in general
that Win XP, Windows Mail is much slower that Outlook Express
and any Search in Vista is well behind Win XP search.
Not to mention that my Win XP runs not on
Duo 2 Core CPU 6600 2.40GHz, 2399 Mhz,
As Vista does, but just on a single Pentium 4 - 3.0 GHz.

I have Windows XP on my C: drive and Vista on another dish, drive is called
V:

The Vista bootmanager works perfect.

Now i would like to delete the XP on my C: drive and only use the Vista. How
can I do that without damage Vista and the startup??

"IanB" <IanB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news8FDB97A-CA33-4CC9-8AE4-49B47BEA137B@microsoft.com...
> Having installed Vista I find that is does not work with:
> 1. Our accounts system - Sage
> 2. Our CRM system - ACT!
> 3. Our shopping cart system - Actinic
> 4. Our design package - Quark

You could have found all that out before upgrading to Vista. MAS90 and
MAS200 are not ready for Vista.

I really dont think that it is too much to ask that the majority of
progams that worked in XP should also work in Vista. When I upgraded from
2000 to XP, the only programs that didnt work in both were the Microsoft
toys that were designed specifically for XP. An operating system should
be written to accommodate the customers needs. Otherwise it is a useless
toy, and in the case of Vista, a broken toy.


On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:32:36 -0700, Justin wrote:

> "IanB" <IanB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news8FDB97A-CA33-4CC9-8AE4-49B47BEA137B@microsoft.com...
>> Having installed Vista I find that is does not work with: 1. Our
>> accounts system - Sage
>> 2. Our CRM system - ACT!
>> 3. Our shopping cart system - Actinic 4. Our design package - Quark
>
> You could have found all that out before upgrading to Vista. MAS90 and
> MAS200 are not ready for Vista.

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On Mar 29, 3:23 pm, "Knud Rasmussen" <kr_net_b...@aars.dk> wrote:
> I have Windows XP on my C: drive and Vista on another dish, drive is called
> V:
>
> The Vista bootmanager works perfect.
>
> Now i would like to delete the XP on my C: drive and only use the Vista. How
> can I do that without damage Vista and the startup??

If you go into computer management, there is an item named "Disk
Management" you can actually delete the drive there. Careful,
though. Disk manager is not a utility to play around in.

C: is the boot partition. You need to get rid of it to kill XP.

There may be a way to move things around so that you prep the
change and do not have to repair startup, but it wouldn't be simple.
The way it's done is to repair Vista's startup with the Vista DVD.

If you can't figure out how to delete C:, download a boot disk
http://www.bootdisk.com/
and format C:, being very careful to respect Vista's partition -
don't format that. Then boot from the Vista DVD, find repair,
and tell it to repair startup. When the computer boots into Vista
you can use Disk Management to rearrange partitioning.

"Knud Rasmussen" <kr_net_brug@aars.dk> wrote in message news:u8LfuejcHHA.2316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I have Windows XP on my C: drive and Vista on another dish, drive is called
> V:
>
> The Vista bootmanager works perfect.
>
> Now i would like to delete the XP on my C: drive and only use the Vista. How
> can I do that without damage Vista and the startup??
>
>

So your saying, rather than develop new technologies, Microsoft's main goal
with new OS's should be to make sure it's backwards compatible with all
apps? What would be the point of releasing a new OS then?

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"Billy" <bigbill52a@slapsoap.com> wrote in message
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>I really dont think that it is too much to ask that the majority of
> progams that worked in XP should also work in Vista. When I upgraded from
> 2000 to XP, the only programs that didnt work in both were the Microsoft
> toys that were designed specifically for XP. An operating system should
> be written to accommodate the customers needs. Otherwise it is a useless
> toy, and in the case of Vista, a broken toy.
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:32:36 -0700, Justin wrote:
>
>> "IanB" <IanB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news8FDB97A-CA33-4CC9-8AE4-49B47BEA137B@microsoft.com...
>>> Having installed Vista I find that is does not work with: 1. Our
>>> accounts system - Sage
>>> 2. Our CRM system - ACT!
>>> 3. Our shopping cart system - Actinic 4. Our design package - Quark
>>
>> You could have found all that out before upgrading to Vista. MAS90 and
>> MAS200 are not ready for Vista.
>
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