How does the Vista Business -> XP Downgrade Program work?

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ElijahTW

Discussion Starter · Nov 28, 2009

As I understand, you can have a Vista Business key converted into a XP key through Microsoft's downgrade program, but I don't quite understand how that works. I've got a HP Compaq 6710b with Vista Business OEM on it, and I can't stand it, so I'd like to downgrade to XP.

I've googled a bit, but I can't seem to find any clear instructions.

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ElijahTW

Discussion Starter · #4 · Nov 28, 2009

Spyhop said:
I doubt any of your computer woes are vista's fault. I'm sure you're scapegoating it like everyone else.

I simply don't like Vista, k?

Not to mention this computer only has 1GB of ram which isn't too great for Vista anyway, thus I want to downgrade to XP.

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ElijahTW

Discussion Starter · #6 · Nov 28, 2009 (Edited)

gamefreak94 said:
Why not ring up M$? If there's any way to do what you're saying they should know.

Hmm.. I'm not even sure which number to call. The tech support number I called just bounced me through a bunch of unhelpful computer systems so I gave up.

Spyhop said:
why?

It never seemed snappy enough to me. Seven runs really smooth and everything, but not worth the money for a laptop that'll mainly be used just for browsing. And as I said, this computer only has 1GB of ram, which doesn't help with the whole "snappy" issue.

Also, I don't want this to turn into an OS debate, I just want to figure out how to downgrade to XP.

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ElijahTW

Discussion Starter · #9 · Nov 29, 2009

I called up Microsoft and finally got to a person, and they told me I can install any OEM/Retail version of XP Pro with any serial number and give them a call when I get to the activation screen.

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