when I bought my computer last fall
Posted By: Keri on 2008-06-10
In Reply to: Change Vista To XP - Barb
it came with Vista. Nothing came with XP anymore but I had to have it. (Now Dell is getting smart and selling computers with XP again.) We just put a copy of XP on. We always have the option to restart and boot Vista. You don't have to dump it. This was a huge headache, though, because we had to download a bunch of other drivers for sound, video, etc., and I would recommend just getting a computer with XP. We really like our Dell computer.
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I use my own computer
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computer without vista
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I may have one that I bought a while back. Will check tonight and get back to you.
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