I just purchased Toshiba Satellite P200 which came with Vista Home Premium... However i need to connected to the Domain so i need to upgrade... I went to Vista upgrade website but it shows that it doesnt support Australia. I was wondering what another cheap way of doing it?

I want to use WIndows Xp but Toshiba dont bring out drivers for this model in windows xp range... :(

pm me, or msn calf underscore boy at hotmail dawt c0m

Any special reason for upgrading to Ultimate? Wouldn't business be good enough?

I went to Vista upgrade website but it shows that it doesnt support Australia

this is indeed ghey.. after much screwing around with the old release candidates were were certain that we'd have a 'one size fit all' installer for every oem version of Vista with Office 2007 embedded, then they turned around at the last minute and locked down the f***ing SKUs. What a f***ing unneccesary drama that's turned out to be. I sure as s*** wasted my time turning upto the MS training sessions for that one. 'Just gnna send a n00b to the next one

I don't condone MS-OS piracy, but I sure can see why people do it. Does your old XP Pro key work if you try and install a dual-boot on your lappy?

btw - can't you just run a virtual pc to do work stuff with TiT? or does Vista lock you out there as well? Windows XP Home had no issue with allowing virt Win2k installs logging into the domain here. I didn't go for MS VM though

last edited by koopz at 20:51:40 08/Aug/07

I got a dell laptop the other day and one of the first things I did was nuke Vista and put XP on. Ended up taking the XP drivers from a similar model (my model doesn't have official XP drivers) and after some effort (slipstream SATA drivers, etc), got it to work.

Seriously, I want to find the guy who thought up Vista and punch him in the face. It's such a mild and completely unnecessary "upgrade" to XP that just gives you all sorts of headaches if you want to do a little more than check your email and watch movies. Completely unnecessary effort required on the part of driver developers too, to support it.

Here's what the manufacturer of a USB-serial cable I own had to say about offering Vista support:

NOTE: Prolific will not be providing Vista drivers for end-user. Please contact the vendor of your cable for Vista driver availability.

( http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=31 )

I rest my case.

last edited by parabol at 21:39:20 08/Aug/07

meh, i like vista. it works well for me. more stable then windows mce 2005.

wow.. totolly off topic there..


soz dude.. I'm just pisssed cause some dude just quit our clan...


sorry again...


-koopz

last edited by koopz at 01:22:42 09/Aug/07

wtf koopz

put down the keyboard matey