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**Paul** · September 12th 13, 04:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general

wrote:
Well, I'm sorry to take away all the fun about this issue --- but,
according to a "technician" in India or whereever -- if she really
ever understood my questions -- it really took a while --- like
enduring 6 disconnects and an hour of trying to explain what
I needed (i.e. HP Win 7, 64 bit drivers for the machine we bought
for my wife , she told me it was impossible for me to downgrade
because no such drivers were available for this machine.
So it's back to the madness of trying to learn Win 7 and Win 8
at the same time.

The only gating item, is laptop style drivers (for when the
LCD panel is connected via LVDS, to the video).

For virtually every other driver issue, there is a solution.

You simply:

1) Do a backup of the original OS.
2) Have at it.

Where is your spirit of adventure ?

Again, this is why we have backups. So you never
have to say you're sorry. You can do anything
you want to the computer, as long as you have
backups to restore from.

Paul

wrote in message
...
I'm seriously considering dumping Win 8 from a new computer
and installing either XP Pro or Win 7 very possibly the former--
and keep it on 'til the updates stop nest year and then, if I live
that long, upgrading to Win 7.
Yeah ---laugh all you want -- but, to my actual question:
My understand is that I install the OS then install the drivers
(right?). So, that's fine --if I have the drivers on a disk.
But, suppose I download the drivers ahead of installing the OS --
how then do I get them on the machine?