 I have a Inspiron 530s with Vista.  I would like to change it to XP.  How difficult is that and why should I not do it?  Vista has not delivered much more than problems.    Hi longhorns1, Its not difficult. However, as your system was shipped with Vista, dell will not supply you with the XP operating system. So you will have to buy an retail version of XP. The upside of that most of the drivers are supplied with the retail version, what drivers you need can be got HERE. There is an journal HERE, that will help you to install XP on your system, you need to look at the manual install of the journal.
I have a Inspiron 530s with Vista.  I would like to change it to XP.  How difficult is that and why should I not do it?  Vista has not delivered much more than problems.
downgrade from Vista?