Hi everyone, I'm new to forum as only found it today after trolling internet trying to get help. I have an Acer Aspire AX3810 desktop pc. It came with windows vista and service pack 1 installed. I created 2 recovery discs when new and over years had to use them a couple of times. earlier this year I had windows 7 installed by someone, but to be honest pc isn't performing too great at times so I wanted to reinstall vista, thinking (stupidly) that all I had to do was run recovery discs. That didn't work so I wanted to know, if I get a vista ISO and install that will that put my pc back to how it was. Thanks for any help guys
Solved Want To Re install Vista
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My Computers
System One System Two
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- Operating System
- Windows 8.1 Industry Pro x64
- Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavillion Elite HPE-250f
- CPU
- Intel i7 860 Quad core 2.8 ghz
- Memory
- 8 gb
- Graphics card(s)
- ATI Radeon HD 5770 1 gb ram
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Alienware 25 AW2521HF
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080 &1680x1050
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB x2
- Other Info
- https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-pavilion-elite-hpe-250f/
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- Operating System
- Windows 2012 R2 Data center/Linux Mint
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Poweredge T140
- CPU
- i3 9100 3.6GHz, 8M cache, 4C/4T
- Memory
- 8GB 2666MT/s DDR4 ECC UDIMM
- Screen Resolution
- 1680x1050
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB & 360 GB x2
- Other Info
- https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetailstxn/poweredge-t140?~ck=bt
In answer to your question will it put my computer back to how it was?
Answer No
What you will get will be better as you won't have the Acer software you will just have Vista
Answer No
What you will get will be better as you won't have the Acer software you will just have Vista
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System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Lenovo Thinkpad T400
- CPU
- Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53GHz
- Motherboard
- LENOVO 64734VM
- Memory
- 2.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 531MHz
- Graphics card(s)
- Intel Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family
- Sound Card
- Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 15 inch
- Screen Resolution
- 1280 x 800
- Hard Drives
- 1x 180GB Intel 530 series SSD 1 x 120GB Hitachi 5400rmp 1 x 650GB Western Digital Elements 5400rpm 1x 1Tb Western Digital Elements 5400rpm
- Internet Speed
- Medium for New Zealand
- Other Info
- Weakest part of my computer is the graphics chipset. Only ever used a laptop. Also use USB Freeview TV Card Lenovo Docking Station External Speakers Other bits a pieces as needed
Sorry to be a bother but I need some more help. I reinstalled Vista, which is all working great, but I keep getting a pop up saying "The Windows Home Vista Premium product key you typed is invalid for activation" Yet I typed in the key that is on my pc. Does that mean i'll have to buy another key?
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I'd be interested in the resolution of this problem, but if the OP never returns to the forum I suppose we'll never know...
Also he said his original recovery discs didn't work, I wonder why not?
Also he said his original recovery discs didn't work, I wonder why not?
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Hi Virtual6, I don't know why the recovery discs didn't work as I had used them before with no problems. I'm glad now that they didn't as the install with the ISO is better with there being none of acer software downloaded. Computer is all working good now