B450: Change from Vista to XP

I bought a new lenovo B450 with window vista  and  it makes my set too  slow  and hangs always  when I open few  windows,kindly  help me  because I want to  change from vista  to window XP,tried but  cannot

Coolsaint,
I assume you are talking about the B450 notebook...?
I think Herick offers good advice to first try to tune / optimize the Vista preload to see if you can get the performance you want out of it before reverting to XP.
If you do go the XP route, please note the SATA mode setting in BIOS Herick references.
After loading your XP version, you can go to this page on the support site to download all the XP drivers for the system and install all of them.
I recommend that you DO NOT change your partition sizes.   If you just format and install to C: you can always start up with the One Key Recovery and recovery to the factory preload if XP turns out not to work well for you.  If you remove the hidden system partition, OKR will no longer work and you won't be able to recover.
Best regards,
Mark
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