Re: Migrating from XP to Windows 2003
From: vvenk (vvenk_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/08/04
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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:17:01 -0800
Miha:
As you rightly said, making the vendors make their products compliant with
SP2 is easily said than done!
Well, I have decided to take the plunge and install Windows 2003 from scratch.
Thanks.
Venkat
"Miha Pihler" wrote:
> I would like to add, that hardware vendors don't always issue drivers for
> laptops for server operating system, so you could have a bigger problem then
> just preserving settings. There are quite a few cases, where people were
> unable to install network card in laptop or graphic card since there were no
> drivers for Windows 2003.
>
> What I would do in your case is give a hard time to your software vendor to
> make their application compatible with Windows XP SP2 (that is what they are
> paid for).
> I know this can be hard, but I also know it is possible. Few of my customers
> threatened their software vendors that they will replace their solutions if
> they will not make software compatible with Windows XP SP2.
>
> Mike
>
> "vvenk" <vvenk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AD536E3D-B1A8-4CF0-8C26-CBF8BE3FE20A@microsoft.com...
> > Hello:
> >
> > I am running Windows XP Professional on a laptop. Ever since I applied
> > SP2,
> > I have been encountering a whole lot of issues installing other software
> > tools such as Documentum. The vendors' standard response has been "We
> > don't
> > support SP2 but it will work on XP SP1."
> >
> > I am pondering installing Windows 2003 on the same laptop. When I run
> > 2003
> > install, would it preserve my registry and thus retain all the
> > applications I
> > have running under XP?
> >
> > Please say yes. Otherwise, I have to spend next 6 days reinstalling all
> > the
> > software packages.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Venkat
>
>
>
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