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Originally Posted by gg.gamble

I have an official xp pro disk that came with an old comp, so may have to look into scraping vista, i use the win98 theme anyway so i wont miss the sexy graphics.

First make sure that there are XP drivers for all of your hardware. A friend of mine recently purchased a Dell pre-installed with Vista. He wanted XP but Dell didn't offer XP drivers for all of the hardware. I ended up tracking down the drivers from European distributors. Apparently Dell sells this system in Europe with XP but not in the states. Probably some agreement between Dell and Microsoft to try and force Vista on the American consumers. <shake head>