[fizzwheel]

It will be downgradeabe, but it won't probably be a very easy process.

it'll depend on whether the manufacturer has released drivers for the hardware in your Laptop that work with XP, they might have they might not have, if they havent then you might find lots of stuff does work properly, which may or may not mean you would be in a worse position than you are now.

As for Vista, we've had two laptops now with it installed, not had one problem with it, apart from the fact that I find it awkward to use as I do alot of stuff in an old school way. i.e. with cmd or from the run cmd and I also I find all the useful stuff is now buried away undereath and load of GUI stuff that I'd rather just turn off.

Trouble is Microsoft, dont want you to go back to XP so they'll make it hard for you to do so. One guy in our office went back to Xp from Vista in our office took him 3 days to get everything working again.

If you dont have much experience of I.T. its not something I'd recommend you do unless you like pain, greif and tinkering.