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How can I switch back to my windows vista?

Aug 11, 2009 7:20AM PDT

I have installed windows 7 to check it out, i read that if i wanted to switch back all i had to do is configure with the windows.old file but i dont not have it on my computer. I also dont have the vista CD's. I used to have vista home premium and i would like to switch it back.

Any help please?

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Here is a...
Aug 11, 2009 7:57AM PDT
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Windows 7 Screen Size
Feb 15, 2010 5:24AM PST

Hello,

I just installed windows 7, I'm using a 37 in LCD TV as a monitor and my resolution is set at the recommended 1920x1080, I am connected with an HMDI cable.

My screen bleeds under the border of the TV and I can't see the start button nor any programs. I had the same thing happen in Vista before I upgraded to 7 and I was able to change a setting that was default 100% to 50% and it shrunk my screen in a 1/4 or inch or so so that I could see all the things I needed to see on my desktop. The setting was not DPI, but I can't remember what it was that I changed, and I can't find it on windows 7. Any help with advice on how I can see my complete desktop is greatly appreciated.

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threads
Feb 16, 2010 3:53AM PST

And for future reference when you have a question like yours please post it as a new thread rather than asking it on the end of an older thread. Thanks!

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i want to switch from window 7 to vista
Jul 10, 2010 12:06AM PDT

well my operating system is window 7 and i would like to change it to window vista my computer model is Compaq presario f700.

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back to vista from windows 7
Jul 28, 2010 3:38AM PDT

Up to aweek ago i was a happy vista user.
Then i thought i shuld try windows 7. What a mistake!!!!
Now i would like to go back to vista, but i don't know how. Can someone help me?
I have ales than a year ol Dell h/w, plenty of memory and a large flat screen.
Nick

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Say again?
Jul 28, 2010 5:17AM PDT

"I have ales than a year ol Dell h/w"

I don't know what that means.

How did you try Windows 7? If you upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 using the normal upgrade route, then there is no way to revert back. If you wiped Vista and installed Windows 7, then again there is no restore.

You will have to re-install Vista.

Mark