How do I upgrade?

[Dan]

First of all, Norma, do all of us and yourself a favor by answering some
questions:

1. Do I want or need to upgrade and why?

2. Do I really need an upgrade or do I want a new machine with new hardware
so I can run cool new games, run Itunes and other stuff?

Suggestions:Why not just keep your old Windows 98 machine and if you don't
want it then donate it and or recycle it because I think Norma you are the
user who wants to run the latest stuff.

3. Do you want someone like Falcon Northwest, Dell, Toshiba, etc. to build
your machine, or do you want to build it or a friend ie. system engineer to
help you build it, etc.

Please correct me if I am wrong and tell us what you really want and what
you really want to do because it sounds like a new machine may indeed be
right for you but of course you may not want to deal with the associated
trial-ware and ad-ware on a new machine and a clean Microsoft os install is
always best I have found.

"Norma Craig" wrote:

> I want to upgrade my current version of Windows 98 to XP. I don't want to
> go near Vista...I've heard too many bad things about it.
>
> I've searched Microsoft's site and just can not find where a 98 user can
> upgrade to XP. Everything is geared to upgrading to Vista.
>
> Thanks for any help you can send my way.
> Betsy
>
>
>

 

[Don Phillipson]

Betsy "Norma Craig" <NCRAIG@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
news:emQijQFBJHA.1980@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> I want to upgrade my current version of Windows 98 to XP. I don't want to
> go near Vista...I've heard too many bad things about it.
>
> I've searched Microsoft's site and just can not find where a 98 user can
> upgrade to XP. Everything is geared to upgrading to Vista.

To upgrade, you must buy at retail (specialist store or eBay) WinXP
system disks. There are both upgrade and OEM (new installation)
varieties. It would be convenient but unnecessary to buy disks with
Service Packs 1 or 2, because once connected you can use MS
Update to upload and instal these. (But be wary of SP3, which
prompted many trouble reports, perhaps for software or hardware
you do not use.)

Dan's advice is cogent. Specify beforehand what you want to do that
your current hardware and software do not allow.

If you can find a reliable source, it may be cheaper to buy used. My
wife's generally admirable XP cost $125 including 22" monitor, in
good running order -- now networked (wireless) with the Win98SE
PC I prefer.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

 

[Dan]

Thanks Don. I am glad you are posting in this newsgroup. Hopefully, Norma
will post back and not just have an empty thread as so many posts to
newsgroups seem to be forgetten about by the original poster and so the topic
goes nowhere.

"Don Phillipson" wrote:

> Betsy "Norma Craig" <NCRAIG@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:emQijQFBJHA.1980@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
> > I want to upgrade my current version of Windows 98 to XP. I don't want to
> > go near Vista...I've heard too many bad things about it.
> >
> > I've searched Microsoft's site and just can not find where a 98 user can
> > upgrade to XP. Everything is geared to upgrading to Vista.
>
> To upgrade, you must buy at retail (specialist store or eBay) WinXP
> system disks. There are both upgrade and OEM (new installation)
> varieties. It would be convenient but unnecessary to buy disks with
> Service Packs 1 or 2, because once connected you can use MS
> Update to upload and instal these. (But be wary of SP3, which
> prompted many trouble reports, perhaps for software or hardware
> you do not use.)
>
> Dan's advice is cogent. Specify beforehand what you want to do that
> your current hardware and software do not allow.
>
> If you can find a reliable source, it may be cheaper to buy used. My
> wife's generally admirable XP cost $125 including 22" monitor, in
> good running order -- now networked (wireless) with the Win98SE
> PC I prefer.
>
> --
> Don Phillipson
> Carlsbad Springs
> (Ottawa, Canada)
>
>
>
>

 

[Norma Craig]

I want to upgrade my current version of Windows 98 to XP. I don't want to
go near Vista...I've heard too many bad things about it.

I've searched Microsoft's site and just can not find where a 98 user can
upgrade to XP. Everything is geared to upgrading to Vista.

Thanks for any help you can send my way.
Betsy

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Only after you provide us with a rundown on your hardware. CPU speed, amount
of RAM, (which you can determine by right-clicking My Computer and then
clicking Properties.) Also, make & model if it's a name-grand machine. That
is usually displayed on the outside of the box somewhere.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Norma Craig" <NCRAIG@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
news:emQijQFBJHA.1980@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I want to upgrade my current version of Windows 98 to XP. I don't want to
> go near Vista...I've heard too many bad things about it.
>
> I've searched Microsoft's site and just can not find where a 98 user can
> upgrade to XP. Everything is geared to upgrading to Vista.
>
> Thanks for any help you can send my way.
> Betsy
>
>

 

[letterman@invalid.com]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:47:38 -0400, "Norma Craig" <NCRAIG@cfl.rr.com>
wrote:

>I want to upgrade my current version of Windows 98 to XP. I don't want to
>go near Vista...I've heard too many bad things about it.
>
>I've searched Microsoft's site and just can not find where a 98 user can
>upgrade to XP. Everything is geared to upgrading to Vista.
>
>Thanks for any help you can send my way.
>Betsy
>

You can also dual boot and have both Win98 and XP, if you have the
drive space. Or, if you are not sure you really want XP, just remove
your harddrive, get another cheap harddrive and install XP on the new
harddrive. This way you can always go back to 98.

I installed XP on a spare h-drive. I did not care for it. I just
plugged my Win98 drive back in and lost nothing.

 

[Bill in Co.]

letterman@invalid.com wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:47:38 -0400, "Norma Craig" <NCRAIG@cfl.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I want to upgrade my current version of Windows 98 to XP. I don't want
>> to
>> go near Vista...I've heard too many bad things about it.
>>
>> I've searched Microsoft's site and just can not find where a 98 user can
>> upgrade to XP. Everything is geared to upgrading to Vista.
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can send my way.
>> Betsy
>>
>
> You can also dual boot and have both Win98 and XP, if you have the
> drive space. Or, if you are not sure you really want XP, just remove
> your harddrive, get another cheap harddrive and install XP on the new
> harddrive. This way you can always go back to 98.
>
> I installed XP on a spare h-drive. I did not care for it. I just
> plugged my Win98 drive back in and lost nothing.

If you're used to Win98SE (like I was, and still am), it takes a bit of
reconfiguring to get XP the way you like it - but once you do, it's not all
that much different.

Well, with one or two big exceptions:

1) WinXP is MUCH more robust (i.e., rarely, if ever, crashes, or gets blue
screens),
and
2) you can run the more recent software on it, that you can't run or even
install on Win98SE.

 

[Dan]

Bill, I agree with number 2 in your statement but I disagree with number 1
because having a dual-boot with Windows 98 Second Edition on one hard drive
and XP Professional -- fully updated on the other drive allows for the
external security of XP with the internal safety of 98 Second Edition.
Remember, in September 2007 when my home computer was hacked from the
compromised APS intranet and the hacker(s) took everything from the XP side
but when they went after the 98 Second Edition side all the hacker(s) could
do was make VPN crash and did not damage the machine. This is why I am such
a pest and I agree fully with Chris Quirke, mvp on this and that is to have
Microsoft have 2 lines of source code again and the source code should not be
9x or NT but something new and different that combines the best of both
worlds so that the consumer is fully satisfied and the business is fully
satisfied and if it is not possible with one source code then just use 2 or
even 3 and market your operating systems according at least that is my
opinion if I ever have a say in what Microsoft would do. <grin>

"Bill in Co." wrote:

> letterman@invalid.com wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:47:38 -0400, "Norma Craig" <NCRAIG@cfl.rr.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I want to upgrade my current version of Windows 98 to XP. I don't want
> >> to
> >> go near Vista...I've heard too many bad things about it.
> >>
> >> I've searched Microsoft's site and just can not find where a 98 user can
> >> upgrade to XP. Everything is geared to upgrading to Vista.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help you can send my way.
> >> Betsy
> >>
> >
> > You can also dual boot and have both Win98 and XP, if you have the
> > drive space. Or, if you are not sure you really want XP, just remove
> > your harddrive, get another cheap harddrive and install XP on the new
> > harddrive. This way you can always go back to 98.
> >
> > I installed XP on a spare h-drive. I did not care for it. I just
> > plugged my Win98 drive back in and lost nothing.
>
> If you're used to Win98SE (like I was, and still am), it takes a bit of
> reconfiguring to get XP the way you like it - but once you do, it's not all
> that much different.
>
> Well, with one or two big exceptions:
>
> 1) WinXP is MUCH more robust (i.e., rarely, if ever, crashes, or gets blue
> screens),
> and
> 2) you can run the more recent software on it, that you can't run or even
> install on Win98SE.
>
>
>