"Downgrade" (with a new HD - fdisk, clean install) means: possibly the hardware was never tested on <Ex Pee; certainly no Dell droid would even hint at the possibility it would run. In fact: it does (so far).

Nothing to lose, trying - while possibly escaping the agony of arranging all the logstics with XP so as never to visit the Update site, then close all the (new) loopholes. ie, for me - acquiring new Doze lore I'd rather not acquire.


A.