Vista a to XP

[scaniavabis]

I bought a new laptop 9 months or so ago with Vista Home Premium on it. (painfully slow in comparison to my Vista PC but I know that laptops are like that) Would it be possible to replace the operating system with XP for which I already have a good disk or is the Laptop going to be Vista only as this was it's only and original installation.

Is there a way back to Vista should the installation go wrong as I don't have a Vista disk!

Also, because of the extra computing power required to run Vista, would replacing it with XP make the laptop run more quickly. It has AMD x 2 Turion 1.6 GHz and 895 MB RAM.

Any views/opinions welcome thank you

[vehelpfulguy]

To check your memory go here and select "Scan my system" (you dont have to buy it from them, you can buy it anywhere)

http://www.crucial.com/

It should tell you how much memory you have, how much you can fit (maximum), and how many "slots" you have.

If at the moment you have two slots with 500Mb in each then you will have to remove both of them and replace them with two new 1Gb.

Replacing memory is usually easy. There may be a small "door" on the underneath of the laptop and undoing the screw should show you the memory. It is simple to take out the old memory and put in the new.

It should explain this in the documentation that came with your laptop.

Upating the memory on a laptop is one of the easiest things you can do (assuming you buy the correct memory)