I spent eight hours yesterday upgrading my HP laptop from Windows ME to XP Home Edition.
Most people I talked to advised against it. This is not a new computer. It's 700 MHz with 256 megs of memory and came installed with Windows ME.
Periodically, I would do a reinstall of the original software and ME would behave for a week or a month and then start to refuse instillation of new peripherals or even the critical updates from Microsoft.
I tried installing 98SE, which I like a lot, and it was obvious I was going to spend the rest of my natural life chasing down drivers and patches.
So I took a leap of faith. I reinstalled the original ME, then choose the option during the XP install to completely replace ME. There's no going back.
Peripherals that NEVER worked on this computer before were painless to install. 'Plug-and-play' is no longer a joke.
A question for XP users: What happened to the little system tray green light to tell me my dial-up connection is active? Can I get it back?
So far, that's my only complaint (other than spending eight hours on a Sunday reinstalling everything.)
If you're thinking about making the leap to XP, let's talk about it.
Most people I talked to advised against it. This is not a new computer. It's 700 MHz with 256 megs of memory and came installed with Windows ME.
Periodically, I would do a reinstall of the original software and ME would behave for a week or a month and then start to refuse instillation of new peripherals or even the critical updates from Microsoft.
I tried installing 98SE, which I like a lot, and it was obvious I was going to spend the rest of my natural life chasing down drivers and patches.
So I took a leap of faith. I reinstalled the original ME, then choose the option during the XP install to completely replace ME. There's no going back.
Peripherals that NEVER worked on this computer before were painless to install. 'Plug-and-play' is no longer a joke.
A question for XP users: What happened to the little system tray green light to tell me my dial-up connection is active? Can I get it back?
So far, that's my only complaint (other than spending eight hours on a Sunday reinstalling everything.)
If you're thinking about making the leap to XP, let's talk about it.