Re: Upgrade from WinMe

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"Colin Westley" <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a pc which was originaly running Win95 and was then upgraded to
> WinMe via a retail WinMe upgrade CD. Does this combination now allow
> me to further upgrade to WinXP. Or do I have to buy the full XP
> installation ?

Yes you can use the XP Upgrade version.

As a side note I've installed XP and run it reasonably well an some very old
systems including a Compaq Deskpro 2000 which is a P-200 mmx with 128MB RAM
and 8GB hard drive. BIOS date was 1997 if I recall correctly. People might
find that it is a lot slower than they like but I found that I could readily
navigate the internet, e-mail, and run MS Office 2000 with no trouble at
all. Just turned off all of XP's eye candy and used FAT32 file system.
Obviously that Compaq isn't a gaming system and will be hard pressed to run
a USB camera on MSN but for basic purposes it worked well and was much more
stable than Windows 9x/Me.


--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


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