This is likely to be difficult because older software does not always support new hardware.
You would need to format the drive and start fresh, or I would suggest installing a new hard drive and installing from scratch. That allows you to recover quickly if your experiment fails.
If you have a Toshiba laptop and are wanting to downgrade your operating system to Windows XP, that is going to take a bit of work to accomplish. You can check out the directions to do so on ehow tech. They will help you in your quest to downgrade your laptop operating system.
You DO NOT have to wipe your hard drive or "downgrade" to run windows XP on a vista computer. Download and install Microsoft Virtual PC. its free and will allow you to run another operating system in a window of the current one you are running. You can have both!
You cannot downgrade an operating system. You will have to nuke the hard drive and reload from the beginning. This is a tough one to do because you have to back-up everything you want to keep and make sure you have all the drivers for everything in your computer. XP has most of the drivers for common add-ons and if it is the Disk that came with your computer originally then it will likely have everything you need. I have done this before. It is not fun but it definitely gives you a nice fresh clean start. Note: You can downgrade but then after using VM ware software. just minimize windows server opreting system and start XP.
Legally - you can't. You void the warranty on your computer if you do that - and if your computer develops a fault - even if it's still under the manufacturers guarantee period - many manufacturers will not fix the problem for free - citing that you changed the operating system from the one that was supplied with the machine !
hello, you cant downgrade an operating system, if u insert the windows xp disk into your vista ultimate u will get this error message: Windows detects that you have inserted an older operating system into drive whatever, setup is cancelled. so u cant downgrade an operating system....sorry
It's called a "Dual-Boot" installation. When you start your computer, you will be asked to choose which operating system you want to use.
A Mac is a computer and Windows is an operating system so it is impossible to change one into the other. If the Mac has an Intel processor you can downgrade it by installing the Windows operating system. You can use the Boot Camp utility (in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder) to partition your hard disc and install Windows so you can use both Mac OS X and Windows.
That is possible if one has a copy of windows xp to install on ones system.
Windows laptop computer refers to the operating system in the computer. This operating system is where your virtual memory, task, and files are stored.
Windows is the operating system on a Microsoft computer or an Apple computer running windows drivers. Without windows your computer would not work.
X Windows System:-X Windows System develops the users graphic interface through its "X" based technology.Explanation:-The X Windows System links oyr computer.The X windows system links our computer directly with any application running an another computer and yet it keeps our computer ondependent. We can run a Micro Soft Windows aplication on UNIX Workstation or we can run UNIX on Apple Macintosh system with our X Windows System...................................................................................
Windows is an operating system produced by the Microsoft company. Windows is not a computer or a company. The first Apple computer was sold in July 1976. The first version of Microsoft's Windows operating system was sold in 1985.