Should i downgrade from windows 7 to xp

In this guide, we will show you how to downgrade from Windows 7 to XP. Unless you made a backup of your Windows XP installation before you installed Windows 10, the only way to go back to Windows XP is with a clean install, if you can find legal installation media for Windows XP. If you want to run Windows XP — and you have a valid license to install Windows XP — a safer option is to run it in a virtual machine.

Setting up a virtual machine is also very technical, but if you make a mistake with it you will not harm your computer. After almost 13 years, Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP. That means that unless you are a major government, no further security updates or patches will be available for the operating system.

Select Recovery. Tried going to dell dock. I am frustrated with Windows 7 and want to go back to windows xp. Is this possible? Depends, you should check Dells website first to find out if your system still supports Windows XP. A lot of modern systems preloaded with Windows 7 do not support Windows XP. If they do, here are the instructions for downgrading, you need to have your own Windows XP disk:. STEP 2. Now, check the size of Windows.

You need to make sure that Windows. If the Windows. STEP 3. Press any key when prompted to boot from DVD. STEP 4. Good luck. PM me again if the consulting company needs someone from Microsoft to reach out. I just called them to ask them to do their due diligence but if they stone wall me I'll certainly take you up on your offer. When the consulting company downgraded the machines, they were the owners.

Therefore, they were the end user at the time of the downgrade. From reading the information on the OEM SB site you provided the tab icon for which looks a lot like it is flipping me off , the end user consultant company is allowed to use their VL key to facilitate the downgrade of the version provided that the machines have the proper OEM licenses which they do.

From the documentation, the methodology used to downgrade the machine is largely irrelevant, it simply has to be a valid method. What they did was in fact valid to that point at least. Now when the consulting company sells the downgraded computers to Company A, they are selling the machines with the proper OEM Windows 7 licensing which grants the downgrade rights. The consulting company could have just as easily used a single old XP oem license or retail license to load an appropriate downgraded OS XP on 5, 50 or 5 million machines as long as those machines had the approprirate Windows 7 OEM licenses.

If these machines are now "pirated" than so is every box that rolls out the doors of Dell, Lenovo, Acer, whoever. They all have the manufacturer's VLK licenses installed. Or else, my box from Dell is a victim of piracy. Assuming Dell is in the wrong, where do I go to report Dell's illegal activities to Microsoft? Is there a reward? Given the high numbers of machines they do this on, I certainly hope so! Besides the logistical nightmare of ensuring proper tracking of those OEM keys with the boxes would be cost prohibitive.

Sorry for all the snarkiness, but all the machines clearly have proper licensing. Yeah, it looks weird for the consulting company to have their VLK on there, but it's the same as Dell having their VLK on the boxes they ship. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question.

Spiceworks Help Desk. The help desk software for IT. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Application Compatibility. Sign in to vote. The option is available from Friday, April 30 Put your Windows XP disk in the drive and restart.

Press Escape or F12 if you are using other computers than HP. Make sure you boot from the disk before the Windows logo appears. Insert the 1. Hit S to specify another device. If you haven't backed up files yet, you can do so before moving on and installing. Hit F3 to quit Setup, then backup all of your files from Windows 7.

Choose a partition. Make sure you select Normal to make it better to format instead of Quick method. It will format the drive and examine them. It will then copy all files to the hard drive. DO NOT boot from the disk. Let it boot from hard drive. Hit Customise to customise your language.

Or hit Next.