converting laptop from vista to xp. (1 Viewer)

[nerdyasian]

Is it worth it?
however i brought my laptop from domayne, and they never gave me any driver disks, or vista disks or anything... just told me to create a backup/ recovery disk...
and i did that.
So if i was to swap over like i did on my desktop, would i have to go and find each individual driver for internet, sound,webcam etc?

thanks.

 

[Absolutezero]

There's no point in going back an operating system now. You as well update to Windows 7 if you want to change.

Or did you mean XP to Vista?

 

[nerdyasian]

no no, i meant vista to xp... cause it seems better... faster?
but if i was to go about going to 7, what happens to my drivers etc for laptop? i never got disks of any sort...

 

[iRuler]

Drivers shold auto update just go to 7, its faster than XP, i skipped vista, too many bad stories... and i hated 7 for the first few days too, different layout, etc... but it seems a lot better than XP now.

 

[nerdyasian]

hmmm do they, cause when i did it on my desktop, i had to reinstall the disk that came with the motherboard and alot of drivers.... to get the internet and shit working... and i cbf going through the trouble of finding each individual thing if thats the case on a laptop...
and if im going to swap to 7, it wont be a legit copy either haha.

 

[Absolutezero]

Most of the time your drivers should remain in tact. However, there is always the off chance that something will mess up on you.

 

[nerdyasian]

might be a stupid question, but if i try vista and something odd that stuff up, will the recovery disk work perfect and fix everything, or will something still mess up haha, im lazy and i am willing to remain with vista unless the process is easy and smooth...

 

[Absolutezero]

The recovery disk should fix any problems.

 

[Teclis]

Well for one, XP is NOT faster than Windows 7...

at least not on lower powered Systems...

XP is a much more basic platform... I mean I've seen it running on 64mb of RAM before (not well, but running)...

but it also doesn't have alot of the useful features of 7...

7 works better on newer systems because it utilises new technologies (like multi-core/hyper-threaded processors much better.

Windows 7 is more efficient than XP, not faster...

That said, it IS a much better system, with better updates (I heard a rumour that they will soon stop updating XP and I'm pretty sure Microsoft are getting pretty sick of updating 3 seperate operating systems with 3 different coding sets etc)

Windows 7 is a half decent investment, and if it's a new Lappy, it will probably cope quite well.

 

[Absolutezero]

Windows 7 is a half decent investment, and if it's a new Lappy, it will probably cope quite well.

This. You might as well.

 

[Aquawhite]

If you want to swap, just go over to Windows 7, it is faster than XP + more secure as well.

Don't like either? Get a mac.

 

[iRuler]

I dont like a Mac simply because there's no right click ... it's all thanks to us being forced to use them in year 5 & 6... havnt really tried any since, might get a mackbook pro for uni tho, they seem good.

OP just get Windows 7... beats vista.

 

[nerdyasian]

yeah alright, thanks guys. reppppedddd.
i just didnt wanna mess up anything ( drivers) cause thats what happened on desktop and i never got driver cds with laptop. thanks.

 

[Aeriff]

I dont like a Mac simply because there's no right click ... it's all thanks to us being forced to use them in year 5 & 6...

you have obviously never used a mac. there is right click. gtfo.

 

[iRuler]

you have obviously never used a mac. there is right click. gtfo.

You gotta hold a shift or control or some crap.

 

[Aquawhite]

You gotta hold a shit or control or some crap.

The the lastest Macbook and Pro, you can either set it to click the lower right hand corner (or any corner I believe for that matter) or use to two fingers to click on the desktop.

 

[iRuler]

two fingers to click on the desktop.

yeah im aware of the 2 figer one for the mackbooks, just for the desktop.. u gotta hold a key.. cant recall which one.

 

[Aquawhite]

Not anymore. It is ctrl on the old ones by the way (although I'm pretty sure you can change it).

The new wireless Magic Mouse is just a trackpad in a mouse form. All the same gestures with the two finger for right click.

You lose.

 

[iRuler]

:/ I never tried to win

 

[Aquawhite]

:/ I never tried to win

When ever you engage in computer discussion you are immediately thrust into a pokemon like battle arena in which you are a metapod which only known harden, however, I am a Charizard with fire blast and I had to take my time for the kill.

You were trying to win by raising your defense so high, I could not damage you, albeit you lost.