Re: Windows 2000 upgrade to Windows XP

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Martin,

Win2000 will only upgrade to WinXP Pro. To use WinXP Home would require a
format and clean installation.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"cagpep" > wrote in message
...
>I purchased a laptop which had Windows 2000 Pro installed. I feel this is
> using up unnecessary resources and want to move to Windows XP, ideally the
> XP Home Version as I feel XP Pro would again be a drain on resources. All
> documentation says that XP Home will only upgrade from Windows 98 etc.
> Does anybody know if it is practical and possible to use the XP Home
> Upgrade
> software to move from Win 2k
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>
>

[Gordon]

In ,
cagpep > wrote:
|| I purchased a laptop which had Windows 2000 Pro installed. I feel
|| this is using up unnecessary resources

I would suggest that you should "know" instead of "feel" before doing this.
W2K is a perfectly respectful and useable OS. You will probably find that
installing more RAM would be a far cheaper and easier performance
enhancement than upgrading to XP.


and want to move to Windows
|| XP, ideally the XP Home Version as I feel XP Pro would again be a
|| drain on resources. All documentation says that XP Home will only
|| upgrade from Windows 98 etc. Does anybody know if it is practical
|| and possible to use the XP Home Upgrade software to move from Win 2k
||
|| Thanks
||
|| Martin

[cagpep]

Thanks for your advice.

I was only considering this course of action following advice from someone
who appearred to have a little knowledge. I would say that the PC is not
used for any intensive applications and that Win 2k is probably more
security and robustness than I need.


"Gordon" > wrote in message
...
> In ,
> cagpep > wrote:
> || I purchased a laptop which had Windows 2000 Pro installed. I feel
> || this is using up unnecessary resources
>
> I would suggest that you should "know" instead of "feel" before doing
this.
> W2K is a perfectly respectful and useable OS. You will probably find that
> installing more RAM would be a far cheaper and easier performance
> enhancement than upgrading to XP.
>
>
> and want to move to Windows
> || XP, ideally the XP Home Version as I feel XP Pro would again be a
> || drain on resources. All documentation says that XP Home will only
> || upgrade from Windows 98 etc. Does anybody know if it is practical
> || and possible to use the XP Home Upgrade software to move from Win 2k
> ||
> || Thanks
> ||
> || Martin
>
>

[Gordon]

In ,
cagpep > wrote:
|| Thanks for your advice.
||
|| I was only considering this course of action following advice from
|| someone who appearred to have a little knowledge. I would say that
|| the PC is not used for any intensive applications and that Win 2k is
|| probably more security and robustness than I need.
||
||


The only thing I would say is to make sure that you get all the security
updates and Service packs, but be a bit wary of SP4 - there have been some
reports of funny things happening after installation. SP 1, 2 and 3 seem to
be OK!

[cagpep]

Thanks

Bad news is I have already downloaded Sevice Pack 4 - seems to have cure the
odd blue screen I was getting!

"Gordon" > wrote in message
...
> In ,
> cagpep > wrote:
> || Thanks for your advice.
> ||
> || I was only considering this course of action following advice from
> || someone who appearred to have a little knowledge. I would say that
> || the PC is not used for any intensive applications and that Win 2k is
> || probably more security and robustness than I need.
> ||
> ||
>
>
> The only thing I would say is to make sure that you get all the security
> updates and Service packs, but be a bit wary of SP4 - there have been some
> reports of funny things happening after installation. SP 1, 2 and 3 seem
to
> be OK!
>
>