Is it worth switching back

phyrexian · #1 (**permalink**) 15-05-08, 03:21 AM

Around christmas i bought a laptop that came preloaded with vista home basic i gave it a few weeks but when it wouldnt run any of my favorite programs includeing a 400$ video editing program i got real angry and i wiped the hard drive and put XP pro corp on it instead and jerry riged some drivers from other laptop modles for it as there are absolutly none avaliable for it in XP sincse it was designed with only vista in mind not XP and i was wondering if it would be worth it to put vista back on it

Toshiba Satellite A215-S7416
AMD Athalon 64 X 2
Dule-Core Processor TK-53
2048MB DDR2 SDRAM
ATI Radeon X1200
120GB Harddrive

kilroy67 · #2 (**permalink**) 15-05-08, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by phyrexian

Around christmas i bought a laptop that came preloaded with vista home basic i gave it a few weeks but when it wouldnt run any of my favorite programs includeing a 400$ video editing program i got real angry and i wiped the hard drive and put XP pro corp on it instead and jerry riged some drivers from other laptop modles for it as there are absolutly none avaliable for it in XP sincse it was designed with only vista in mind not XP and i was wondering if it would be worth it to put vista back on it

Toshiba Satellite A215-S7416
AMD Athalon 64 X 2
Dule-Core Processor TK-53
2048MB DDR2 SDRAM
ATI Radeon X1200
120GB Harddrive

If you cant run the programs you want then what would be the point of doing it again??

phyrexian · #3 (**permalink**) 15-05-08, 10:39 PM

the main program i was mad about was my video editing program but now that i have recently gotten the adobe cs3 master collection all my editing programs are up to par and my other programs can easily be updated but im not sure if i should switch back so that i can get all the right drivers for my laptopor if i should just keep running my makeshift setup with the drivers i have

kilroy67 · #4 (**permalink**) 15-05-08, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by phyrexian

the main program i was mad about was my video editing program but now that i have recently gotten the adobe cs3 master collection all my editing programs are up to par and my other programs can easily be updated but im not sure if i should switch back so that i can get all the right drivers for my laptopor if i should just keep running my makeshift setup with the drivers i have

Vista will pick up a lot of the drivers, plus also now that SP1 is out it should be all the better. Also you can go to Toshiba's web site and probably get updated drivers from there.

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