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Trying to downgrade my sony VAIO to xp but cannot. NEED HELP PLEASE.

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JoeHatesVista   08-07-2009 at 01:33:05 AM

Hey all,

I just bought a new Sony VAIO VGN-NW125J laptop. It came with Vista Home Premium 64-bit. I want to downgrade it to Windows XP, but cannot find the drivers ANYWHERE online. Sony's website does not have them either. Anyone know where i can find the windows xp drivers i need?

Also, i was wondering if any VGN laptop xp driver will work with my VGN... And would i be able to just search for the individual xp drivers for the separate hardware?

Please help.

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Anonymous   08-16-2009 at 08:23:15 AM

Welcome to the club!
I've tryied same (VGN-FW355J) and worse, my recovery disks are not working; now I'm running on Windows 7, looks nice but I'm still working to find all programs & drivers previously installed :(

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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   08-16-2009 at 08:47:13 AM

Why bother downgrading? Vista is an excellent OS.

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Superhal   08-16-2009 at 09:15:52 AM

in vista, you can turn off Aero and go into XP mode.

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hanyib   08-19-2009 at 11:26:52 AM

you can download sony vaio VGN-NW125J XP drivers from this url:

http://www.getpcmemory.com/drivers [...] p-drivers/

hany

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JoeHatesVista   08-21-2009 at 05:13:47 AM

that site does not include my model.

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JoeHatesVista   08-21-2009 at 05:14:17 AM

and by the way... vista is a memory hog. this is why i dont like it.

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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   08-21-2009 at 05:43:17 PM

Vista is not a memory hog. It uses memory in a different way than XP, in an effort to make your program loads faster.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/w [...] fetch.aspx

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JoeHatesVista   08-29-2009 at 04:53:47 AM

i know. it pre-loads programs that are "important" like virus scans and such. its stupid. I dont want a memory hogging virus loaded up in the background so its "easy" for it to start up. i want the most out of my memory and ill scan my computer while it is off just like i did with XP. If it aint broke, dont fix it. especially with a newer, crappier version.

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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   08-29-2009 at 05:12:40 AM

It's not so much a matter of difficulty as a matter of speed.

If you don't want superfetch, disable it. You will find it in the Windows Services panel.

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