[crjdriver]

Originally Posted by DxPreS

I wanted to access a forum before i removed Vista from my PC. I stumbled along here and read everything everyone had to offer on the topic. Thank you for the info and experience if that is where the info came.

On another note...


I truly believe you have no idea what you do on your own PC, what programs were you able to find that are really is compatible (I had trouble even installing AIM 6.1, had to get 5.9 and upgrade but 6.1 was supposidly compatible). Heck Dreamweaver and Macromedia Flash do even work how they are supposed to. are you using MS Paint to do your editing?!?!? ROFL Im not even going to get into gaming!

I am running Vista Home Premium 32bit, and i have had problems watching dvds with even a decent quality, cannot capture and record video at a good quality with the TV tuner card (even though Leadtek has provided Vista drivers) cannot record and edit video with any of the following programs without Vista DRM reducing quality substantially:
Ulead DVD Movie Factory
VideoStudio 9.0
Nero
Windows Movie Maker
Winfast PVR2
And when i want to record audio with video for some reason in vista it wont recognize that the tv card has and audio out directly plugged into the cdin (audio in) on the motherboard, however XP had no problems doing this?!

OK so set aside the video & Audio editing and now we get to the lack of performance its benchmarks with PCWizard2006 was just horrendous. Oh I'll let you know what I'm running:
Vista Home Premium 32bit
2.4 Core 2 Duo OC @ 2.71
Asus P5B Deluxe Motherboard
2gigs Corsair DDR2 800 PC6400
EVGA Nvidia 320mb 8800GTS PCIE Video Card
MACS Monsoon II Cooling system
Leadtek XP Expert Tv/Tuner card (PCI)
2x 250g Segate SATA 3.0 Hard Drives
Apevia 680w Iceberg PSU
2x Lite-on SATA CDR/DVDR Drives
NZXT LEXA Classic Series Case
Acer 22" "Vista ready" lol... LCD monitor

So tell me how can I believe that someone is having no problems at all when i designed this system to be fully compatible with vista researching and making sure each and every component would and should work fine with vista. Instead I'm getting disgusting low response times, lack of editing features, lack of compatibility, lack of performance, and lastly how can you stand behind "Vista which continuously spends CPU time monitoring itself, trying to figure out if you're doing something that it thinks you shouldn't. If it does, it limits functionality and in extreme cases restarts just the video subsystem." - DRM in Windows Vista That's funny. We are at the point now where the PC decides what we can and can't do. It's like the CPU is overriding the brain. Next Vista will tell you what you can think according to a DRM scheme. The user should manage the PC, the PC shouldn't manage the user.

No thank you Vista Ill go back to XP for good, heck i might even go to Linspire

Well lets see I do video editing using a hauppauge card; no problem since hauppauge has released drivers and software for their card. In fact it works better than it did under win2k.

Next data recovery using O&O disk recovery; works fine no problems at all.

General office apps email, word, excel, and access; since office 2007 was made to work with vista, it is no surprise it works fine.

DVD viewing using Power DVD5 [newer versions worked however I did not like them]

Burn DVDs using nero7.

Even an old version of Quicken [2001] works with vista.

Yes I guess you are right I do not do much with this system

[sevebou]

Got a tip from another user on this one. It was a pain finding a way to uninstall
1. Put in your xp disk. When it says Wrong Machine, type the cd drive for your machine. I have a Toshiba and it was the letter Q.
2. Go to the base folder and type cd base, than enter.
3. Type os bat, than enter.

It should bring up the Toshiba Restore Tool. ALL SET! Good Luck!

[Killer05]

yea i think Vista sucks i cant even play BF2142 with out geting kicked out from Punkbuster coz it thinks its a hack Vista sucks

[Bob Cerelli]

The nice part is that you don't have to get a computer with Vista is you don't want to.

[DATTA]

I have finally done it after raking my grey mass for more than 15 days and that too in a somewhat simple recipe!

Just follow the link and bite into the solution. If you still find it difficult, post a comment and I would try to further simplify the process.

http://raaj.wetpaint.com/page/Uninst...all+Windows+XP


Regards

[jjeeffff]

do you know any thing about capture cards

[DATTA]

Hi Jeff,

Capture cards are add-on cards which can be fixed on the PCI slots of a motherboard. Capture cards grab video from an analogue source Mini DV camera( handycam) or a digital source such as a DVD Camera or say, a DVD or a HDD camera or a player.

The video is captured so that it can be edited or just be stored in the Hard-disk. Now a days, we use the firewire port to capture video. It is a loss-less way to capture video as there is no pixel loss in the process.

If your PC has a firewire port, you can simply go ahead and capture video from your handycam and if your Pc doesn't sporta in-built firewire card, you can simply plug in a firewire card which comes very cheap.

Reply appreciated !

[charles33]

To Uninstall Vista OEM, the best way would be to format the drive (trust me). I was waiting in anticipation for the delivery of my new Dell Inspiron 9400 Laptop; 2 gigs of ram, core 2 duo 1.8, bluetooth, 256 ati vidcard, and with Vista business.

After really trying to convince myself Vista is the way to go, I was Lying to myself! Now, I am more excited on removing Vista and installing XP, to unleash the real power in this laptop!

For removal of OEM Vista, sometimes manufactures like Dell partition the drive into 3 or four small and huge 10 gb slices, ie.. restore, media connect, oem bundled crap, and cache drives.

You need to insert Windows XP in cd> restart computer> press f1,f2,esc,f12- depends on mfg to enter boot menu>choose boot from cd> follow prompts to "fresh" install>delete and confirm all partitions>create partition>choose a good os size of 30gbs>install xp on this partition ntfs quick>once installed go to mfg of computer website and download and install all "necessary" drivers for that computer model>Call mfg and have them send you a restore disc just in case u want to revert to OEM Vista- so you can opt for future Vista SP1 or SP2 or heck a revamped Vista>Don't forget to update XP.

My reasons for removing Vista and OEM stuff:
More space on drive
Office 2003 runs smoother on XP than Vista
Tried Office 2007, Outlook issues out the yen yang, ie slow send/ receive
Tried Outlook 2003 with Office 2007 still huge problems
XP compatibility issues with Vista- no work a rounds!
Didn't do dual boot- waste of space and time switching back and forth
File transfer issues within LAN Networks, Slow ie... Calculating time, etc
VPN client slow transfer and connectivity issues.
Visual effects were to distracting, even when I switched off all visual effects to bare bone.
More graphics output from video card when rendering, instead of sharing it with Vista.
These are issues I had within 2 weeks of Vista, so i didn't want to invest more time.
Waiting for SP1 or SP2 to comeout. Or maybe I'll install Longhorn Server 2008 and use it as a workstation.

Charles

[AuntSa]

**You will no longer have Vista on your machine. If you want to save Vista to a boot disk, I would do that before doing this process! BACK UP YOUR HARD DRIVE! You will no longer have anything on your hard drive!

1. Download a Windows 98 boot disk on a floppy. I found it quite easily when I was looking for it on line. It shouldn't cost you anything.
2. Start up your machine and go into the BIOS settings.
3. Change startup boot sequence to external if using a USB floppy, or A Drive for an internal floppy drive.
4. Finish with the start up but then shut down. Be sure to back everything up!! Theres no going back!
5. Put your floppy in and start up.
6. Windows 98 is much easier to delete partitions that Vista will not let you delete.
7. You should see a command prompt.
8. fdisk enter
9. Y to enable large disk support
10. Delete all existing partitions
11. After deleting all partitions (I think there are two) press esc I think twice but the machine will tell you in order to save changes you must restart.
12. You are in a Windows 98 environment, just shut off your machine.
13. Take out your floppy and put in your Windows XP CD
14. You can go back into your BIOS setting and change your boot sequence back if you wish.
15. Your machine should now be installing Windows XP.
Good Luck!

[Bob Cerelli]

Or just boot with your XP CD and install it.

Early on during the installation process you will be given the opportunity to format any existing partitions.

For example, FDISK cannot delete extended NTFS partitions. Only single primary ones. So if there are two partitions, and they are NTFS which is likely if there was Vista on the computer, then FDISK can't delete both.

[cobija]

not to annoy any1 but vista has been giving me problems (for one thinking a few things on my computer are gonna crash it and another is vista takes up too much space to run so it drops your fps in games. ive tried everything to dual boot but its not really working. so when i put the XP CD in, do i need to back everything up?

oh and AuntSA, here is a link to a windows 98 boot disk. they have this and SE

http://www.torontotechcenter.com/sup...les/boot98.exe

all you need to do is insert a floppy first then click the exe and it puts 98 on it.