Replacement for defective design Vista

Microsoft has started to offer a refund or a replacement for the imperfect VISTA operating system yet?

l is the WinSxs thing obviously a design flaw that is why it is reasonable that they should do this.  Technicians admitted as well.  The file is now combined larger than the rest of my files from hard drive and it continues to grow.   They say get a bigger hard drive, but I don't think it will work as it will eventually eat those as well...
How can MS Yes, I get my free replacement?
Thank you Ken

I have spent a lot of time in these forums, help people, and I have my own it company. very difficult to do not know how they work, not to tell you!

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buy a bigger hard drive for Vista

60GBs was always too small

hard drive manufacturers will normally provide the cloning software to move your operating system installed from the old to the new hard disk

Search for information on this subject on their Web site

If you have vista business or ultimate, you can use the builtin vista complete PC Backup to move

read the information below

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial145.html

or if you have vista home version you'll need 3rd party software

link below is an example of this:

http://www.Acronis.com/homecomputing/products/TrueImage/index.html

also to put your machine how you bought:

1. that vista is preinstalled, you should have a recovery on your old hard drive partition

You can recovery disks to reinstall on your new hard drive

ask the manufacturer of the machine how

2. contact the computer manufacturer and ask them to send you to vista recovery disks to reinstall the operating system back as it was when you bought it

they do it for a nominal cost of $

3. or borrow a microsoft dvd vista

Make sure that you borrow the correct 32-bit or 64-bit microsoft dvd to your computer

they contain all versions of vista

This is the product key that determines which version of vista is installed

http://www.theeldergeek.com/Vista/vista_clean_installation.html

Save all data, because it will be lost, do the above

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Windows 7:

It depends on if the manufacturer of your computer/laptop has windows 7 drivers available for him as to if it will work properly

check with them

and read this

Windows 7 upgrade advisor

http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=1b544e90-7659-4BD9-9e51-2497c146af15

Windows 7 system requirements

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/products/system-requirements

Windows 7 upgrade paths

http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579 (WS.10) .aspx

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and the link below is to an instance of installation of Windows 7 for any other questions about the installation of Windows 7

http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-windows_install?page=1&tab=all

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Installation of XP instead of Vista:

Come on first, site of the manufacturer of your computer, check to see if your model computer has XP drivers available for it...

If the XP drivers are not available for your model, forget the idea.

If Yes, download and save to a CD or Flash drive.

Then buy a disc XP and license.

Save all your data because it will be lost during the installation of XP.

Then follow the steps below to do a clean install.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/OperatingSystems/SS/instxpclean1.htm

Once installed, reload ALL your other programs of original media, or download again.

Reload all drivers and utilities for your motherboard.

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