Windows 2000 upgrade to XP

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From: Michael Pardee (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 05:41:37 -0700

My politically-incorrect answer: if W2000 is working okay
and you have third party security utilities (most of them
are still necessary with XP), I recommend you stay with
what works as long as it works. W2000 is a stable
platform. There are mature drivers for it and is still
supported.

My computer is multi-user, so I had some incentive to
change. I had a special opportunity to get XP Pro
upgrades for all three computers in the house - two were
running 2000 and one was W98se - so I went for it. I am
not sorry, but frankly it wasn't worth the retail cost of
XP except possibly for mine.

If you do upgrade, I recommend a complete backup, format
and clean install. The XP upgrade over W2000 twists the
permissions quite a bit, and when I tried using the Files
and Settings Transfer Wizard to upgrade the hard drive
afterward, it all crumbled.

Mike
>-----Original Message-----
>I can't seem to narrow down my search on the net
>(especially on the Microsoft webslite) about issues
and/or
>advantages of upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows XP.
>
>Can you help.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Inoke
>.
>

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