Vista to xp downgrade - small problem

[justjonny]

Hi i downgraded Vista to xp on my laptop and my old C: is now calld F: this is where all the programs i was using in vista were installed, is there any way of making these programs appear in the installed programs list again or will i have to manualy uninstall then reinstall them?

thanks in advance:

 

[KSoD]

You will have to install them no matter what. They will be missing key parts to run them which are associated with Vista.

Registry Entries, App Data folders and all of that are needed.