How To Grab A Free Copy of Windows XP Professional
Are you one of those unfortunate people who just purchased a new desktop or laptop that came with Vista already installed? You’ve discovered you hate Windows Vista and wish you could go back to Windows XP? (If you actually like Vista stop reading here.)
I do run my own home based computer repair business, and I’ve had many customers complaining to me about how horrible their computers run right out of the box. I give them two choices. I can tweak Vista for them, or they can go back to XP. So far all of them have chosen XP except one person. That one person brought his computer back a couple weeks later asking me to get rid of Vista for good.
I promise you, you’re not out of luck. It’s easy to get a free copy of Windows XP Professional to replace that crappy Vista, and I know this for a fact. We’ve tried this and been successful each time.
What you need to do:
Call the computer manufacturer. Yep, that’s it. Call them, and tell them how horrible you think Vista is. Tell them you would have never purchased the computer if you had known Vista was so horrible, and you want a copy of XP Professional. We’ve tried this 5 times now, and each time we’ve received an XP Professional disk in the mail within a couple weeks.
Tags: computer manufacturer, windows Vista, Windows Vista sucks, windows xp
March 13th, 2008
UGH! Hubby is on the phone with HP about this right now, they’ll send the disk, butthey are telling him it voids the manufacturers warranty AND the extended warranty the minute they ship it whether he actually installs it or not. What a crock!! We should have just bought Macs!
March 13th, 2008
That’s bs they’re telling ya’ll that because we’ve never had that problem. Hell Office Depot are the one’s that told us to request the disks anyway. I sent one of my customers to Office Depot to buy XP, and he told the manager what was going on. The manager told him to call HP to request one.
Personally I pay no mind to the warranties in the first place, but that’s just me. The second I open the case most of the time I’m doing something that’s going to void the warranty.
I know for a fact Dell will send the disks no questions asked, and well HP did, too.
I’d tell hubby to ask them if it voids the warranty if he goes out and buys his own copy of XP. That’s bullshit if it voids it either way!
March 13th, 2008
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The Vista upgrade disc is still sitting in my laptop bag. I really don’t want to install it on my Vista Capable (!!!!) laptop, and I’m hoping that lawsuit over the whole VISTA CAPABLE crap gets me some money!!