We’ve been buying new HP Business Desktops to replace the older machines under the desks of everyone in the office. We’ve been fortunate enough to have the same model available over the past couple months so I could easily just setup each Workstation from an image of the original HD. Recently they ran out of dx2300s and they next closest thing was the dx2400. When I received i immediately noticed the siginaficant difference in the case, which kind of lead me to believe the image I have would not work properly on this PC. I tried anyways and of course it didn’t work, So I had to go through the setup process again and install all of our business software and of course downgrade from Vista to XP.

While scrambling to get the downgrade CD in the tray before the system booted to its original HD I noticed that Windows XP logo appeared in stead of the expected Windows Vista. Which only meant the computer had Windows XP pre-installed with blatant disregard to the Windows Vista Basic Stick on the front of the case.

Oh well this just saved me the time it would have taken to downgrade to XP, so I’m grateful. It also came with 2 Operating System CDs; Windows Vista Basic and Windows XP professional. I just thought it was interesting that HP is now downgrading to XP in the factory before shipping out their machines that one could only imagine were intended to be sold with Windows Vista on them, hence the Vista sticker.