Re: XP Home Ed specs for laptop
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:58:54 -0700
stuart wrote:
I have a laptop with Windows 2000 Pro Edition and would like to
upgrade this to XP Home Edition.
Sorry, but you can not do this. Windows 2000 Professional to XP Home is
considered a downgrade, and is not supported. You can upgrade to XP
Professional, but not to XP Home.
If you want XP Home, you'll have to clean install it.
I've just had a look on the
microsoft webpage for the minimum system spec but how do I find my
laptop specs to see if they will work together?
Minimum specs aren't very useful; they tell you what you need to get it to
run at all, not what you need to get it to run at acceptable speed.
There are three things you primarily need to be concerned with for XP:
processor speed, amount of RAM, and size of hard drive. As practical
minimums for most people, I recommend no less than a 400MHz processor, 256MB
of RAM, and a 40GB hard drive. Such a machine will be far from a speed
demon, but should run well enough to be at least acceptable to most people.
You can see the size of the hard drive directly in My Computer. For the
processor and RAM, in Windows XP, you can right-click on My Compter and
choose Properties; it shows those there. I can't remember Windows 2000 well
enough, but I *think* the same works there.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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