Vista to XP help please

[beesonthewhatnow]

I'm presuming that you have service pack 2, so I'm wondering why you've found that you need the fix.

Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick there are two versions, one for each service pack...

 

[golightly]

Right. Reading the link you posted up again it says that you need to contact Microsoft Product Support Services, which I think might be your safest option because there seems to be different versions of this fix. If you type in '888111 download' into Google it gives more information about this and some possible download sites, but on the forums people are advising to go Microsoft.

 

[Sunray]

yup, or they just haven't got round to writing the drivers for XP yet - I don't think they'll bother, probably another way of Microsoft pushing Vista onto people

The problem is that the driver model has changed. So if you write Vista drivers your going to have to do a lot of work to make them XP as well.

This is to make Vista less susceptible to crashing from poorly written drivers. When that happens people tended to blame MS when actually it was some guy in a back street of Shanghai who only just started to get to grips with technical English.