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Bought NEW Laptop with Win7 on it & I wanna go back to Vista

Jun 5, 2010 10:34PM PDT

HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!! I HATE MY WIN7 WITH A PASSION!!!!! I just bought a new laptop with Win 7 on it!!! Sad I want MY vista back!!! Can anyone give me a link or something to go back and one that will let me keep all my files!!! ALL the one's I've been given are either malformed or inactive. Thanks SO much for the help.

4ever & Always,

TechGal4Life

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Give it time.
Jun 5, 2010 10:36PM PDT

If you want to go to Vista it will be a little costly as there is no downgrade rights from 7 to Vista so you are talking 200 or so bucks to go back.

Try telling what you want to change. For some its that new taskbar.
Bob

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What do you not like??
Jun 7, 2010 3:53AM PDT

I agree with Bob here. It will take some time to get used a new operating system. If you let us know what you do not like, we can try to help you either learn more about it, or in some cases make the feature look like it did in Vista. For example, if the taskbar is the issue, you can make it act more like the taskbar in Vista - http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/make-the-windows-7-taskbar-work-more-like-windows-xp-or-vista/

In the meantime, learning about Windows 7 will help you adjust to your new operating system, which will hopefully mend your relationship with Windows 7 and your new laptop - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/what-is

Cheers,
Cassandra