XP Rollback? 1212 Responses

Last post: 2 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Aug 28, 08, 7:52 a.m.

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• TheBlueOne

  My boss' laptop got stolen out of his car earlier this week..so he's out shopping for a new one - he mostly runs all the financial and database aps (non-creative)..and everything we have in the office is XP and everything in the stores is Vista. I told him to just buy whatever and we can roll it back to XP..and he just called me telling me the store manager (wherever he is at - Best Buy or whatever) is giving him horror stories about the impossibility of rolling anything back from Vista - to whit I told my boss that's basically bullshit...but now he's all freaked out and not listening to me...

  Are there any problems to this that I am unaware of and the local minimum wage nitwit at Best Buy might be privy too?

  Aug 28, 08, 7:52 a.m. – Permalink

• D_Dot

  I would imagine you should get all the XP drivers for the laptop before you start. Maybe the manufacturer has an XP driver set for that model?

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 7:55 a.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  my only thought would be installing the drivers for the various laptop peripherals - if they are vista only you may run into some frustration.

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 7:55 a.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  Not any that i'm aware of. You can't really 'rollback to xp' per se, you'd have to start from a clean slate (meaning formatted drive, etc) and then install XP.

  • yup– Jaline1/2

    Well that's what I meant..– TheBlueOne2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 7:55 a.m. – Permalink

• D_Dot

  Maybe try a dual boot first to see what problems you run into.

  • yes, that should work too - setup another partition for XP first.– d_rek1/2

    I think that'd be a problem from what I have read..– TheBlueOne2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 7:55 a.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  Also, NEVER TRUST BEST BUY.

  • well, that goes without saying...– TheBlueOne1/3

    + eleventy– MLP2/3

    thousion– mikotondria33/3

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 7:55 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  Wouldn't they take it as an opportunity to try and sell him a copy of XP? Because someone did that to me when I asked (just out of curiosity) if we could roll back a Vista machine.

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 7:57 a.m. – Permalink

• robotron3k

  you will need a uniform, a blue golf shirt and black slacks to one-up the Best Buy nitwit...

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 7:57 a.m. – Permalink

• mikotondria3

  walk the guy round to the cables section and point to a standard USB cable and say "how can you be right about ANYTHING when you think $40 is the right price for a $2 cable", then punch him to the ground on all our behalfs..
  Fucking best buy..

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 8:09 a.m. – Permalink

• D_Dot

  

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    = free, does what parallels does– flashbender

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 8:11 a.m. – Permalink

• capsize

  they are doing a job and maybe they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed but why give best buy clerks a hard time? isn't your time more valuable than that?

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 8:13 a.m. – Permalink

• Redmond

  Minimum wage hater!

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 8:14 a.m. – Permalink

• mikotondria3

  Because their management have a policy of getting the floor people to constantly try to tell me the thing I want isn't the thing I really want, and the thing Im supposed to 'really' want or need is a) Crap, and b) more expensive.
  This, plus the lack of training in simple customer service and the fact that they just hover and eye you inconspicuously makes for a very poor customer experience and the feeling of being hounded.
  Yes, give the clerks shit if they treat you in a way that you would not expect to be treated anywhere else, ever, then they can tell their managers who can change the policy and take a good look at the reasons why people that use computers and accessories all day, such as myself, never go in there and spend all of our techonology budget somewhere else.

  • = hate the game not the playa.
    You can do all this without being rude, that's compulsory to be honest.– mikotondria3

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 8:17 a.m. – Permalink