Uninstalling Windows Vista

I recently purchased the Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade from XP package
and am having major technical difficulties with this operating system. Is
there a way to uninstall Vista and go back to using XP without wiping my
entire system?

Depends on where you are in the process. If you finalised the upgrade,
there is a knowledge base article on how to restore XP.

How to restore a computer to a previous Windows installation after you
install Windows Vista
(927522) - Describes how to restore a previous Windows installation from the
Windows.OLD folder after you install Windows Vista. This article assumes
that you did not format the hard disk partition before you installed Windows
Vista.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927522/en-us

"travman" <travman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I recently purchased the Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade from XP package
> and am having major technical difficulties with this operating system. Is
> there a way to uninstall Vista and go back to using XP without wiping my
> entire system?

I do not seem to have the windows.old folder. I upgraded from XP and did not
format my drive. I did not do a clean install. Why would some computers have
this windows.old folder and some (mine) not?
I would love to go back to XP.
Too many things are broken. Things I need to work now.

"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
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> Depends on where you are in the process. If you finalised the upgrade,
> there is a knowledge base article on how to restore XP.
>
> How to restore a computer to a previous Windows installation after you
> install Windows Vista
> (927522) - Describes how to restore a previous Windows installation from
> the Windows.OLD folder after you install Windows Vista. This article
> assumes that you did not format the hard disk partition before you
> installed Windows Vista.
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927522/en-us
>
> "travman" <travman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5B73057B-AAD6-4CE1-ABED-53982D815F16@microsoft.com...
>>I recently purchased the Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade from XP
>>package
>> and am having major technical difficulties with this operating system. Is
>> there a way to uninstall Vista and go back to using XP without wiping my
>> entire system?
>