I own a 7-month old hp Pavilion dv6000 with Windows Vista pre-installed.Last October,one of my RAM failed.I had several bluescreens during those times.My technician changed it with 1 gig ram and reformatted my laptop using the recovery discs I made.After reformatting,he installed several programs on my laptop including kaspersky 6.0,games,winamp etc.I was satisfied by the result of his job.But I had again a bluescreen.It happened 2-3 times.I asked him to drop by our house to see what the problem is.I suspect that it was due to incompatible programs(games,shockwave,antivirus) that he installed.Actually he could not YET determine if the bluescreen error relies on software or hardware since he still needs to download a utility program that would check errors on my laptop.He said that Vista is a new and fresh OS that's why it's not yet fully mastered by the technicians.And so he suggested me to Downgrade to XP.He had already successfully downgraded 6 vista-computers to XP.
2007-11-21 01:37:29 · 7 answers · asked by Kimberly Landicho 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
it sounds like a hard drive malfunction. that just happened to me. sounds like you got a faulty hard drive and its corrupting itself. it sounds like your computer is still under warranty. contact HP support and talk to them. they should replace it for free.
2007-11-21 01:41:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I not see it would hurt. I tell my friends XP be around for another 10 years if they have everything they need now. But, within the ten years Vista will have an SP2 or something to make it better just like other flavors of windows. Heck, by the time XP not usable everyone be using Linux and Microsoft be out of business. Well, that will never happen, Microsoft will still make plenty of money charging people for Vista Support. :-p
2007-11-21 01:45:56 · answer #2 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its probably the right thing to do. just keep in mind Vista is a year old, so your technician telling you its new and fresh is not 100% correct.
He is also installing illegal programs on your machine that you need to be aware of. If you didn't pay for Kaspersky for example, then he is installing it illegally. Kaspersky is up to version 7.0, so I doubt he put a 6.0 version on legally. Just make sure you are aware of what he is doing. Make sure you get all documentation and licenses for software installed on your laptop.
If you are going to XP, then you have to buy a copy of XP to install on the machine. You are not entitled to it because you have Vista. Before you go ahead with this make sure he can secure all the drivers for your hardware. HP has sourced several manufacturers of hardware to provide them with hardware that only has vista drivers. HP and Nvidia have an agreement and Nvidia has made video cards just for the HP machines with Vista drivers only.
2007-11-21 01:50:43 · answer #3 · answered by thunder2sys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a hundred%.. I merely offered a clean pc and had to reserve it because of the fact i did no longer choose VISTA on it. It relies upon on what you elect to apply it for too. VISTA is physically powerful for multimedia, video clips/song/photographs and organizing them. XP is a competent working device.. plenty greater solid in my opinion than VISTA. good good fortune!
2016-11-12 07:26:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be fine. Since we're not yet ready for Windows Vista, let's stick to Windows XP in a meantime.
2007-11-21 01:42:52 · answer #5 · answered by Dens 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is safe but you have to make sure you have the drivers that are necessary to run your computer with XP
http://www.removevista.com/
2007-11-21 01:41:12 · answer #6 · answered by techchick 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! For the love of ...... please do. Vista is worthless.
2007-11-21 01:41:57 · answer #7 · answered by J.M.W. 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋