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| Thread ID: 37169 | 2003-08-30 21:27:00 | XP Professional | g4rs (744) | Press F1 |
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| 171780 | 2003-08-30 21:27:00 | Doog morning lla. Lovely day here in the BOP. Hope it's the same for you wherever you may be. I have purchased XP Professional and wish to upgrade from 98SE. Can I do this successfully or are there issues I need to address before doing this. I know I may have to upgrade some other software that I am currently using e.g. Corel Draw 7. All comments appreciated. And for anyone who is interested in local music, just purchased Bic Rungas latest, Beautiful Collision. Support local music!!!! Regards, |
g4rs (744) | ||
| 171781 | 2003-08-30 22:55:00 | i have upgraded just make sure you have got a back up of all your documents you want to keep just in case and back up your address book as for all your drivers i found that xp had all of mine except for my onboard sound driver which is an ac97 |
phylip (1886) | ||
| 171782 | 2003-08-30 23:06:00 | Most software that you are using in Windows 98 should run in Windows XP but some programs released prior to Windows 98, eg for Windows 95 or DOS will not. Some programs may be able to run in compatibility mode. Not all hardware will run in Windows XP due to manufacturers not updating drivers. Once Win XP is installed you can use the Program Compatibility Wizard to see what will run and what will not. It is preferable that your upgrade is performed on a "clean" machine, ie one that has been formatted for a clean install of Win XP unless you wish to dual boot. Do remember that all data will be lost in a format unless backed up to external sources such as CDs or another hard drive. | tommy (2826) | ||
| 171783 | 2003-08-31 00:31:00 | Also you might want to do a search of pf1 & see what other things you need to watch out for when upgrading :) | stu140103 (137) | ||
| 171784 | 2003-08-31 06:08:00 | The Microsoft site (support.microsoft.com) has some good information that may be useful. | Susan B (19) | ||
| 171785 | 2003-08-31 07:00:00 | R u doin a fresh installation or just overwriting the Win PLatform, u could import ur files to XP wit that inbuilt feature they offer on the Win Xp cd, i think...... | vk_dre (195) | ||
| 171786 | 2003-08-31 07:25:00 | What are your system specs? I would say you need t least a 800Mhz CPU, 512MB RAM. Don't be fooled by anyone who says that 384MB is suffucient. If you want to take advantage of XP's power... more is definitely better. hope that helps a bit |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 171787 | 2003-08-31 09:00:00 | Bloat ya mean don't you? | mark.p (383) | ||
| 171788 | 2003-08-31 09:09:00 | I have corel draw 9 somewhere and though Xp is a very stable O/S it does need lots of ram and a HDD space as well as a fast CPU. Its the phone home and activation that I dont like especially as it will be user pays on a regular basis to keep Bills wallet nice and full . |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 171789 | 2003-08-31 09:39:00 | Hi q4rs I recently upgraded from Win98 2nd Ed to XP Pro with virtually no problems. XP and/or Outlook Express for some reason did not like my old internal modem - I bought an external and all is well. I still had several in-use databases and label making files on the old Works 4.5 - over a number of years I had been too lazy to translate them to versions 97 or 2000 and anyway they run well on 4.5. XP warned me that it would not like 4.5 so I backed up the contents and XP deleted 4.5, BUT allowed me to reinstall the Works 4.5 package and I simply restored from the backup - still use it for the databases and label making. Go for broke. It works well. Scouse. |
Scouse (83) | ||
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