Installing/Upgrading to Windows XP

Teresa wrote:

>I currently have Windows ME on my PC and would like to
>install XP Home Edition. In the manual, it gives me the
>option to upgrade or to do a new install. I'd like to
>just do the upgrade because it seems easier.... Is it
>better to do the new install to get rid of ME? Or will
>upgrading the operating system be okay too? We've had so
>many problems with ME..

I regard it as better to do an upgrade in the first instance. It may
well go entirely smoothly - both this machine and my laptop were
upgrades from ME a couple of years ago and have needed nothing doing to
them. And the ME used on this machine was only just about holding
together on revised hardware. You can always go back and do the clean
install if you find it does not work out - the converse is not true.

There are a few precautions - things to check on and things to disable.
Read Gary Woodruff's article on upgrading to XP at
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpupgrad.htm

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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.org