Bootcamp: Install Vista over 7 in lion?

[ubersonic]

My new iMac has Lion which means it doesn't officially support XP or Vista, only 7. I currently have 7 installed via boot camp. would it be possible to install Vista over 7 and then use the drivers for 7 on Vista as their basically the same O/S with some tweaks and a different GUI?

Thank you.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Vista? Just why?

Windows 8 Consumer Preview in a few hours is released.

 

[Skyboat]

Reminds me of this:

 

[ubersonic]

Vista? Just why?

Because I prefer the GUI to 7's.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Because I prefer the GUI to 7's.

You can change the layout so it looks like vista.

 

[ubersonic]

You can change the layout so it looks like vista.

I don't mean just the layout I mean the entire GUI, the taskbar, explorer, etc. I know a lot of people prefer 7 to Vista but I'm not one of them, I just don't like any of the things that are different between the two O/S's.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I don't mean just the layout I mean the entire GUI, the taskbar, explorer, etc. I know a lot of people prefer 7 to Vista but I'm not one of them, I just don't like any of the things that are different between the two O/S's.

oh dear.

 

[ubersonic]

So anybody know if this would work?

 

[Deleted member 77746]

No

 

[Memphis]

I don't mean just the layout I mean the entire GUI, the taskbar, explorer, etc. I know a lot of people prefer 7 to Vista but I'm not one of them, I just don't like any of the things that are different between the two O/S's.

There is simply not a facepalm big enough for what you just said.

 

[ubersonic]

UPDATE:

Good news people, after much scanning online I discovered that you can install XP over the 7 partition then use the drivers from the Leopard version of boot camp, so I went with my plan of installing Vista over the 7 partition then using the 7 drivers and everything works perfectly

Edit: the Apple installation setup.exe file in the root of the drivers did refuse to run as it wasn't Windows 7 so I had to run the driver installers myself.

There is simply not a facepalm big enough for what you just said.

Well im sorry I don't like any of the changes they made, but I just don't, imo 7 was a step further in the wrong direction not an improvement, yes it made some things simpler for noobs but in doing so it made many more things harder/laborious for power users and some of the additions are just plain annoying.

 

[MagicBoy]

Because I prefer the GUI to 7's.

You need psychological help.

Even if it did look better, everything else about Vista is a steaming pile of awfulness. The WDDM/DWM implementation is 99% of the problems with Vista. Now if you chose to run Windows Server as a workstation I'd look more favourably upon it...

As to whether it'll work, that depends on the model of the Mac.

 

[ubersonic]

You need psychological help.

Even if it did look better, everything else about Vista is a steaming pile of awfulness.

Oh please, the reason most people hated Vista when it launched was the same reason most people hated XP when it launched, because it ran like a dog on current hardware, With 7 all MS did was wait for hardware to catch up then re-release Vista with a bunch of tweaks/updates and a new GUI (the same thing they did when they reworked 2K as XP).

Windows 7 is not faster than Vista and it is no more stable, the only real world difference is the way it looks (which I hate) and minor changes to the way it works (most of which I find annoying).

As to whether it'll work, that depends on the model of the Mac.

True but basically is 7 works then Vista will, the newer ones don't officially support XP/Vista but like I said you can just just use the 7 drivers in Vista as they are essentially the same O/S like 2K/XP were.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Windows 7 is not faster than Vista and it is no more stable, the only real world difference is the way it looks (which I hate) and minor changes to the way it works (most of which I find annoying).

It isn't minor changes it was a huge change in the background most of it you didn't see. I can understand your opinion but Windows 7 is faster than Vista, it is more stable than Vista.

I skipped Vista and went to Windows 7 but then changed to osx.

 

[ubersonic]

It isn't minor changes it was a huge change in the background most of it you didn't see.

Obviously but as far as the myth of it being a completely different O/S goes it was merely an revision of Vista, Its technically just NT 6.1 (like 2K being 5, XP being 5.1 and Vista being 6) but they decided to call it 7 to distance it form Vista. The changes in the foreground though are minor, some are subtle but I haven't seen any that I would call an improvement (I used 7 for 3 months on my main PC before going back to Vista and I run 7 on my laptop because its only for Lanpartys anyway so doesn't bother me due to low usage)

I can understand your opinion but Windows 7 is faster than Vista, it is more stable than Vista.

No offence intended, but the facts say different on both counts.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I'm not going to get into a mass debate about vista and 7 any more but there are reasons people moved to windows 7 for the reasons highlighted in probably thousands of posts on this very forum.

 

[MagicBoy]

Windows 7 is not faster than Vista and it is no more stable, the only real world difference is the way it looks (which I hate) and minor changes to the way it works (most of which I find annoying).

That's so incorrect I just facepalmed. Not going to discuss this further with someone that has irrational GUI OCD and seemingly knows nothing about the hidden bits of Windows.

Magic out.

 

[sehcure]

I don't mean just the layout I mean the entire GUI, the taskbar, explorer, etc. I know a lot of people prefer 7 to Vista but I'm not one of them, I just don't like any of the things that are different between the two O/S's.

It's just terrible compared to it; interface wise, and performance wise...