Vista downgrade?

[hcfwesker]

Yeah, me again.

I've got windows vista, and hate it. anyway i can downgrade to windows xp? without loosing the vista already on this pc.

like, make a separatre user, and have one run on vista, and the other on xp?

i'm borrowing my dad's laptop, but i need to use a program that's compatibler with xp, and not with vista

is there a possible solution

 

[Jaosals]

You could consider dual-booting. I've never done it myself, but supposedly you are given the option to choose either Vista or XP on startup when both are installed on the same system.

Ofc, you'd probably want to have enough space on your system before you consider doing something like this. I don't know about how it'd go on a laptop. -n-

 

[Dj-Whitey]

Apparently windows vista takes over??

 

[HomerSPC]

You could consider dual-booting. I've never done it myself, but supposedly you are given the option to choose either Vista or XP on startup when both are installed on the same system.

Ofc, you'd probably want to have enough space on your system before you consider doing something like this. I don't know about how it'd go on a laptop. -n-

Dual booting works on a laptop... Just think this, if your laptop has the specs to Play World of Warcraft, you can dual boot.

 

[hcfwesker]

Ok, but i am a NOOOOOOOOOOOOB 😀

how do i go about doing this? dual booting. my laptop is pretty huge in memory.

What i need, is the XP windows movie maker supported my video capture device, ( which the device is vista comaptible)

but, for some reason, WMM on vista, doesn't use it, now ... it only supports a stupid video camera. I've tried setting tools and options. but, after alot of searching, have found that 1,000's are also having this problem.

i just want XP back, but can't remove vista, cause it's my dad's laptop i'm borrowing :d , and will only hVE IT FOR ABOUT 2

 

[Rich Edmonds]

Dual booting can be done on any specification, you can do it on a 1GB flash driver, 200Mhz processor, 256MB RAM if you wanted to (obviously using a low down linux). You will need to go to a disk manager and resize your main partition to free up at least 10GB (depends what you want to use XP for) and then you should have your main partition and free space. Simply run your XP CD upon system boot and install XP as you would normally using the free space you have created. However, there have been reports that this actually doesn't work too well and some people can't access XP so use at your own risk? Lol.

 

[hcfwesker]

I appreciate the well planned tutorial, Traygon. It may not be worth taking the risk, i guess. Cause, mainly, i'll mess it up somewhere during the process.

I'm trying a work around. Which is really stressful. I'm using to seperate programs. One to record video, and the other to record audio, then, i import those to WMM ... and have a long, painful process of getting each segemnt of video, and audio, to sync up. 😀

It's almost become an obsession to get this to work. -bigeyes-

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

Okay then, I reccomend pulling off a vBox with a XP Disk or an XP .iso.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Download that program, and install it on Vista. Next you'll either need a XP Install Disk, or you can download a copy of XP (assuming you have the legal rights to do so). This program will allow you to run a copy of XP within Vista without losing any data. It opens XP in a new window, no different than any other program would.

If you need any farther help, I'm just a PM away.

 

[hcfwesker]

that's sounds do-able. I'll just ahve to see if i still have my old copy of XP on disc. I'll keep in touch, like i said, i found away around it.

But, what use to take me less than 3 minutes to capture a perfectly sync'ed video on WMM, now, it takes at least 45 minutes trying to get around the loop holes.

Are there any good, free software, for now, that lets me use a capture device, for both audio & video.

I'm gonna run to best buy and see what they got, but most i've seen there run about $100-$200 and still doesn't have what the FREE WMMaker on XP had.

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

Only thing I can suggest for that would be to run a few Google searches, something is bound to turn up somewhere. Shame Vista doesn't have a compatibility layer like Linux does, I can run any / all XP / Vista programs. To this day I haven't found one that doesn't work ~cool~

Windows 7 uses the same type of thing a vBox is, only more integrated into the actual OS. Should be fun to see how it turns out as well >.>

 

[hcfwesker]

Well, in the past, this video took me about 1 hour .... that's capturing all the video, editing, adding titles for each players name, caprutring audio for the intro, saving to my pc, then uploading to youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOGigHpa ... annel_page

[youtube]mOGigHpagME[/youtube]

This one, is what i just completed, and took about 6 hours total for everything i had to do to work around Vista and the new WMM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nllgqxS3 ... annel_page

[youtube]nllgqxS3Lik[/youtube]

The top one is longer, and the intro is much better, cause i had so much more to work with, and with very little effort. The bottom one, i'm just not proud of, cause of all the stress it took just to get it up ... even though it's a good win, by me 😉

 

[Rich Edmonds]

Windows 7 uses the same type of thing a vBox is, only more integrated into the actual OS. Should be fun to see how it turns out as well >.>

It is very good -🙂-

 

[Subz]

I have had a dual booting on my laptop.

I used Partition Magic which only works on XP to partition your hard drive then you can install a new OS from that program.

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

@Subz
I have had dual booting in the past as well, a few times with Ubuntu. I've found It's just not worth the effort for a temporary install like in this case. It'd be awesome if he could manage to create a boot-able .iso of XP and run it live off a flash drive, I might try that some day if I get bored ~lol~

 

[Subz]

I have removed dual booting now and just run Vista premium -D-

 

[Damien]

You could consider dual-booting. I've never done it myself, but supposedly you are given the option to choose either Vista or XP on startup when both are installed on the same system.

Ofc, you'd probably want to have enough space on your system before you consider doing something like this. I don't know about how it'd go on a laptop. -n-

Dual booting works on a laptop... Just think this, if your laptop has the specs to Play World of Warcraft, you can dual boot.

lol, your specs have nothing to do with that ;-)

 

[Dylan]

Okay then, I reccomend pulling off a vBox with a XP Disk or an XP .iso.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Download that program, and install it on Vista. Next you'll either need a XP Install Disk, or you can download a copy of XP (assuming you have the legal rights to do so). This program will allow you to run a copy of XP within Vista without losing any data. It opens XP in a new window, no different than any other program would.

If you need any farther help, I'm just a PM away.

I am with Ghost.
Handy Link
http://lifehacker.com/179906/windows-vi ... dows-vista