Downgrade from Vista to XP is now legal if...

You are using Vista Ultimate or Vista Business.

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Or if you buy a legit windows xp

Wait, what?!

This doesn't apply to all versions of Windows Vista?

Okay so what do you do if you have Windows Vista Home Premium?

You still can do so... but not in the way Microsoft expects you to.

There are 2 options.

1. Upgrade to Vista Business or Vista Ultimate then downgrade it.

2. Wipe out the installation of Vista with a Linux OS, then wipe it again to install XP or other OS.

I use option 2... no money for option 1.

2. Wipe out the installation of Vista with a Linux OS, then wipe it again to install XP or other OS.

I would wipe the drive with DBan instead !

"Spildit" wrote:

2. Wipe out the installation of Vista with a Linux OS, then wipe it again to install XP or other OS.

I would wipe the drive with DBan instead !

Never heard of DBan, is it something like Killdisk?

DBan = Darik's Boot and Nuke

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

It's a freeware tool that will write 0s to all sectors of the hard drive. It will wipe all the contents of the drive / partition that you select to wipe by re-writing 0 s, making data recovery impossible.

Cool.

I thought that delete vista and installing xp legal.

So what work, format the hd and put xp on a vista pc? I don't see how that illegal??? You own xp and vista.

I am lost.