Good morning,
Please excuse any grammar errors you may see here. This is being done with voice dictation in order to give you the natural that is friendly and useful.
Sometime earlier, I think it was on this forum, I made the statement that she cannot install windows XP on a new laptop computer that was designed for Vista. As you might expect, there were many who wanted to contradict my generalized statement. I still believe, in the broad application, that is still true.
Perhaps it is best to illustrate the idea by example. Personally, I am very, very slim and your with windows XP. But recently my daughter bought a brand-new laptop at Wal-Mart for a real bargain price and it came with Vista Home. Rather than telling her to go back to XP, I just left her alone is a eventually she figured out how to use it. I would consider her to be a slightly above average computer user, but not someone who could do a complete reinstall of an operating system that was not included in the original design criteria. She has become very adept at using windows Vista.
So then, this is not a putdown. I am not making fun of you. I just want to say that if you have difficulty adjusting to the start, you are the kind of person that will have even more difficulty trying to install windows XP on a computer that was not to is designed for that in the first place.
And yes, I have several operating systems here in my private hideaway.
My best honest advice to you is to go back to using Vista.