mac davis wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:44:38 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

Just thought that I'd chime in here, since I may have caused some
confusion:

Gateway called it a "downgrade" because it's a price decrease..
AFAIK, It comes from Gateway with XP as the original OS, not
installed over Vista..

Either way, I would have preferred an XP machine, even if I had to
"upgrade" it to XPpro..

In that case the differences would be in Gateway's settings.

Lee Michaels wrote:
"J. Clarke" wrote
Lee Michaels wrote:
"mac davis" wrote

OH.. now that we have 2 vista machines, one for home and one
for
our
karaoke
gig, (our karaoke software kicks ass on Vista), Gateway is now
offering a "downgrade" to XP on new machines..

Be warned.

I needed XP to run my software, so I "downgraded". The
downgraded
XP
does not run as well as the original XP.

The "downgraded XP" is the same XP as any other XP.

I have run them side by side. The downgraded one is not the same.

Then you should find the person who did the downgrade for you and
demand that he fix his hosed up installation.

The procedure for "downgrading" is to install Vista, activate it,
wipe it, then take your XP CD, the same one that you used to
install
XP on your other machine, and install it using the Vista serial
number. The only thing different between them is the serial
number.

If you are seeing different behavior on the two machines, then
either
someone installed a different version of XP on one or the settings
are different between them. If the former then wipe your downgrade
and reinstall using the same disk you used for your other machine,
if the latter then fix the settings.

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