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| Thread ID: 40995 | 2003-12-26 11:19:00 | Upgrading to Win2000 | d-wong (5036) | Press F1 |
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| 203192 | 2003-12-26 11:19:00 | I'm considering upgrading from Win98SE to Win2000. Currently, I'm have a PIII 733MHz, 256M RAM, 32M video card machine. Has anybody experienced any problems upgrading? Or experienced problems since upgrading? Cheers David |
d-wong (5036) | ||
| 203193 | 2003-12-26 11:25:00 | No problems here. If Win98 is working for you, then stick with it. If you have a free copy of Windows 2000 (or real cheap), then go for it, as you'll find it _is_ more stable, with better support for more recent programs (aside from MS stopping support for Win95/98 in Jan IIRC). Just make sure you get Win2K SP4 first, and up-to-date Anti-Virus protection to keep those nasties away :-) And good luck ;-) Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 203194 | 2003-12-26 11:26:00 | BTW - Welcome to PressF1. We hope you'll stick around long after you've upgraded your PC. Isnt 12:11 an odd time to be signing up though? ;-) Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 203195 | 2003-12-26 20:42:00 | I would image your C: drive using ghost or driveimage just in case of any trouble so you can revert back in a about 15 mins if you want to just in case of any incompatibilities you may haver with drivers or hardware . | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 203196 | 2003-12-26 23:24:00 | I upgraded my 98se to win2k and allthough it claimed to have done it, it most certainly did not! I had office 2000 installed and that did not work after the update only with 6 other programms I use regualy. Moral is CLEAN install.. P.S. You can do this to make your life a bit easyer... 1. Put a win2k CD in your CD drive. 2. Start>Run>(cd drive letter):i386\winnt32 /checkupgradeonly 3.Let it run its test and note the location of the report file. 4. DO MAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT IS SAYS!!! Also you can download a program from mickysoft that will do the same thing: www.microsoft.com |
ugh1 (4204) | ||
| 203197 | 2003-12-26 23:32:00 | I have done it as a clean install on a significantly smaller machine with no problems that couldn't be tweaked away. Office 2K works fine along with most other apps but I did need to download new printer and scanner drivers as well as SP4 and a nice afternoon's downloads of other M/S updates. Uses rather more of my 128 RAM than I would like but I appreciate the increased stability overall. |
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