Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 17:47:00 11/04/01
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On November 04, 2001 at 16:45:02, Roy Eassa wrote: >On November 03, 2001 at 02:02:05, Sally Weltrop wrote: > >>On November 02, 2001 at 20:19:13, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> >>>Before rushing to "upgrade" check this report >>>on the benchmarks: >>> >>> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/10/29/011029tcwinxp.xml >> >>I had Win98SE & WinXP is MUCH,MUCH faster so I think I made a smart choice. > > >Just upgraded to WinXP this weekend. If you have 9x/ME, I think it's a good >upgrade. If you have Win2k, I don't think it's worthwhile to do the upgrade. > >I paid $150 gross for XP (home, upgrade) plus a bunch of other stuff, from >OfficeMax.com. I used a coupon to get $25 off. I will get a $50 rebate, which >makes the other stuff essentially free. My net cost will be just a little over >$75 (because of tax) for the upgrade from Win98 and all the other stuff. I >don't think that's excessive for what you get. My fiancee made a similar >purchase from Staples (so we don't run into conflicting rebates, we bought from >separate stores which have separate rebate programs). > >I first installed XP onto a separate partition from 98, but was very >disappointed for 2 reasons: first, the tool to migrate all your settings over >only does it for a few select apps. The vast majority of your apps do not >benefit. And second, I've used a PC daily for years and years, and cannot >imagine spending the months required to re-install everything, get all the >upgrades off the net, and re-create all my preferences, for the hundreds of apps >I use. So, I re-installed XP, this time right over Win98se. That is what they recommend anyway in the setup program, it worked like silk for me. Only problems you'll have is with Utility programs (NU 2002 works) and burning programs (Easy creator 5 Platinum) works great and for AV - NAV 2002 works great too, AVG works as well and that one is free I know this is >considered a bad thing to do, and indeed I had some problems with stability. >But it's still better than Win98se by a long shot, it's quite stable overall, >and it lets me hit the ground running as far as all my old apps are concerned. >Nearly everything works at least as well as it did under Win98se. Those that >don't work any more (my backup program, Rebel Century 3, Partition Magic 6) I >was warned of in advance either by Microsoft or in this forum, and I'm prepared >to upgrade or do without. > >Bottom line: upgrade if you have Win9x/ME, don't if you have Win2k. (Can't >comment on NT4.)
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