Re: Vista<XP downgrade???



Strictly speaking, you are correct, but in almost every case, at the moment, XP drivers for pretty much everything in pretty much every laptop do exist. The problem is finding them.

Jerry wrote:


There's no guarantee that the OP will be able to find the XP drivers he needs, especially for a Compaq laptop.


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