Though, some of these limitations are there in order to prevent consumers from altering default settings/installations from the manufacturers but I think manufacturers ought to put into consideration that some consumers may not be satisfied with some of these factory settings/installations and want to customize to suit their purpose. This “customization” may also include downgrading into a lower version of windows operating system. That is exactly where am heading to.
A couple days back a client brought a lap top to me. This laptop was HP i5 Series; a very good system with a fantastic speed but the client complained bitterly about a challenge he was facing with the system. He was experiencing crazy consumption of internet data by the system. He could exhaust N8000 worth of data in 3 days without downloading. Quite surprising! I suggested system downgrade to him but that was the beginning of my adventure.
I started the downgrading process but on getting to the hard disk section with a click on the next button a dialog box popped up saying “this hard disk is GPT partitioned therefore, windows can’t be installed on it”. Anyway I got that solved and successfully downgraded the system from windows 8 to windows vista.
On booting to desktop I discovered that none of the system’s driver was active. Including the universal serial bus controller(USB). That was strange! I began drivers installation but to my amusement, none worked. Strange again! I went online still no solution. I spent the whole day on that system with no head way.
The next day I went online to HP official website to check the profile of that system. It was stated clearly that available compatible drivers for the system are only windows 8 oriented. WHY? I think there should be some flexibility.
This is just one out of the numerous limitations that I have pointed out.
……………………………...more revelations yet to come. See ya!
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