Help, I am in Vista Hell

[EmilyB]

Originally Posted by DanG

It will ask you if you want to install windows, say yes, it will ask if you want to repair the existing install of windows, say no and then it will ask you about the file format and if you want to format, you want format (NTFS), not quick format NTFS.

Is my problem the fact that it is the Home Edition? It just says the installed version is newer and won't install.

[Buccaneer]

I built a 4200 dual core machine with 2 Gig Ram and 500Gig HD ... loaded vista and my memory usage when the machine idled was over 45%

Did some downloading and ram jumped to 75% usage and even up to 95% at times ... running just basic stuff


got fed up and loaded XP Pro last weekend and have not been above 10% ram ever since


I just booted from the XP CD as mentioned before ... full format of the drive ... and new XP install