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downgrading of window Vista to XP?

Hi... Just bought a Acer Aspire 5920G laptopn with Window Vista version. However, due to gaming purpose, I wanted to downgrade it to Window XP home edition instead. I have the windows XP cd with me. But how do I go about downgrading it? I can't find the Window Vista program in the control panel under Add/Remove hardware. Anyone can help me on this?

Update:

ic... but when i buy the laptop, it doesn't comes with any cd... not even the graphic card, or backup disc etc... secondly, how do i go about to create the back up date for it? sorry... I'm a computer idiot who oly know how to play games... but noe nuts about pc... heehee

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  • 1 decade ago
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    buddy lucky you have me actuall you cannot find your solution on add/remove programs this is what you need to do but you must backup your windows vista if your acer notebook is new it must have the original recovery cd of windows vista, (keep it) it is very useful when your going to retreive your windows vista so how to downgrade here... Open you windows vista first check the C:\ and look for the acer drivers folder... you need to backup your original drive and programs that can only locate on your drive C:\ prepare a external drive for this thing you must have external hard drive at least 2gb for the drivers actually it only consume about an MB only... "remider you go first to acer website to download the Acer Aspire 5920G Drivers for Windows XP http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/Acer_driver...

    then after you have backup the driver, you must prepare your windows XP CD Installation must be the right CD Installation... insert the CD on the CDROM and restart your computer....

    on the bootup you must press the F12 to select bootup and choose CDROM if these cannot work in the bootup in first screen that you can only see if you turn on your computer look for the F12 or F2 Select Bootup and choose CDrom or Optical Drive and it will load your CD Installation and it will ask you to press any key....

    and it will start the Windows XP installtion....

    now your in the Windows XP Installtion Screen follow the Instruction in start go to Install Windows XP and it will ask you to to read the license agreement and press F8 then it will ask you to intall which drive you want (i these part you must choose which drive you'll going to install but you must do it the professional way so you need to press "ESC" and it will prompt you to format the drive so highlight the drive C: and press D to Delete partition and press enter to confirm and press L to delete confirm... and after that you will see that it will become UNPARTITIONED so you need to highlight that Unpartitioned and press ENTER and choose NTFS Quick Format and it will format and copy the System Files after that it will restart and go to installation....

    next step it will go to windows XP Software installation prepare the Serial key of your Windows XP CD Installation and the rest is just follow the Instruction....

    after you finished the installtion you need to run the one that you download to acer web site the drivers installtion and after that finished already and done you can use your PC and install the necessary application that you need Office or mediaplayer and also you games (tip use the Windows XP SP2 much better...)

    hope this will help you to your problem...

    you may ask me question regarding to some computer problem if you want

    IT Support from Singapore

    John...

  • prebor
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    you are able to no longer "downgrade" your version of domicile windows (or maximum different softwares) they could desire to format the puzzlingcontinual and do an entire deploy of domicile windows XP to come again to it. They in all probability do no longer prefer to try this (without your permission) using fact it may wipe each and every thing on the puzzlingcontinual - all you music, video clips, records documents, and so on. The deploy is trouble-free adequate which you should be waiting to insert the XP CD, boot the workstation and permit it do the deploy. You shouldnot prefer their help to do it.

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