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Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC?
I am a newbie on computers, my wife bought a desktop PC from a garrage sale,
50 dollars, cheap, but there is an issue with the Operating System. Somebody said OS is Windows XP Home edition. There is a problem with password and other issues. My wife who knows nothing about computers except to type and do e-mail bought a Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade w/SP 2 Ver 2002 unknown to me. Question: Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC? Stand alone? Or this can be used only to upgrade an existing OS of an older version? Pls. help...... |
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Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC?
Hi, I am passing by, having posted a question, but have used WIndows XP Home
Edition for 4 years almost constantly...heh. Download and install the SP3 update. Learn how to "burn" a cd image, a cd image is an .ISO file. Download from Microsoft.com the XPSP3 .ISO image file and use something like Nero (a cd writing and so on application) to "burn" write the .ISO file to an actual CD. THen use the cd to update the XP operating system to the SP3 version. SP3 works way better than SP2 and I have discovered after many installs and reinstalls of Windows XP Home Edition that this SP3 .ISO image file burned to a cd and installed this way is most efficient and semes to have a more favourable result than earlier install methods. ....er, I hope you use a broadband connection to the internet. -- ....scribble scribble scribble... "Vener" wrote: I am a newbie on computers, my wife bought a desktop PC from a garrage sale, 50 dollars, cheap, but there is an issue with the Operating System. Somebody said OS is Windows XP Home edition. There is a problem with password and other issues. My wife who knows nothing about computers except to type and do e-mail bought a Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade w/SP 2 Ver 2002 unknown to me. Question: Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC? Stand alone? Or this can be used only to upgrade an existing OS of an older version? Pls. help...... |
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Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC?
Vener wrote:
I am a newbie on computers, my wife bought a desktop PC from a garrage sale, 50 dollars, cheap, but there is an issue with the Operating System. Somebody said OS is Windows XP Home edition. There is a problem with password and other issues. My wife who knows nothing about computers except to type and do e-mail bought a Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade w/SP 2 Ver 2002 unknown to me. Question: Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC? Stand alone? Or this can be used only to upgrade an existing OS of an older version? Windows operating systems come in full retail and upgrade versions. The upgrade versions are cheaper than the full versions. You can do a clean install using an upgrade version but will need to provide proof of eligibility for the upgrade by putting in an older operating system CD during the install when prompted. So if you have a Windows 98 or ME install disk (not a recovery disk from a computer mftr. like HP), this will work. If you don't have that, your wife should return the Upgrade edition and purchase a full retail one. With used computers, the first step is always to do a clean install. http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...alling_Windows - What you will need on-hand Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC?
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 02:39:01 -0800, Vener
wrote: I am a newbie on computers, my wife bought a desktop PC from a garrage sale, 50 dollars, cheap, but there is an issue with the Operating System. Somebody said OS is Windows XP Home edition. There is a problem with password and other issues. If I acquired a used computer, the first thing I would do with it would be to reinstall the operating system cleanly. You have no idea how the computer has been maintained, what has been installed incorrectly, what is missing, what viruses and spyware there may be, etc. No matter who previously owned it, I wouldn't want to live with somebody else's mistakes and problems, possibility of kiddy porn, etc., and I wouldn't recommend that anyone else do either. My wife who knows nothing about computers except to type and do e-mail bought a Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade w/SP 2 Ver 2002 unknown to me. Good. Question: Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC? Stand alone? Or this can be used only to upgrade an existing OS of an older version? Certainly it's enough, but SP3 is the latest service pack. You should upgrade to SP3 after installing it. The requirement to use an upgrade version is to *own* a previous qualifying version's installation CD, not to have it installed. When setup doesn't find a previous qualifying version installed, it will prompt you to insert its CD as proof of ownership. Just insert the previous version's CD, and follow the prompts. Everything proceeds quite normally and quite legitimately. My view is that the Upgrade version is the best deal for almost everyone. If you don't have a previous version's CD, you can buy a used copy of Windows 98 very inexpensively someplace like eBay. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC?
Vener wrote:
I am a newbie on computers, my wife bought a desktop PC from a garrage sale, 50 dollars, cheap, but there is an issue with the Operating System. Somebody said OS is Windows XP Home edition. There is a problem with password and other issues. My wife who knows nothing about computers except to type and do e-mail bought a Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade w/SP 2 Ver 2002 unknown to me. Question: Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC? Stand alone? Or this can be used only to upgrade an existing OS of an older version? Pls. help...... Did you get the installation CD for Windows Home? If not, what your wife bought was only hardware that included a polluted hard disk and now you'll have to go buy a legit license of Windows. If you have the installation CD (or there's an image in a hidden partition on the hard disk to restore the host), flatten and rebuild. That is, boot using the install CD, let it reformat the OS partition, and do a FRESH install of the OS. |
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Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC?
"Vener" wrote in message
... I am a newbie on computers, my wife bought a desktop PC from a garrage sale, 50 dollars, cheap, but there is an issue with the Operating System. Somebody said OS is Windows XP Home edition. There is a problem with password and other issues. My wife who knows nothing about computers except to type and do e-mail bought a Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade w/SP 2 Ver 2002 unknown to me. Question: Is Windows XP Home Edition w/SP 2 Ver 2002 enough to run PC? Stand alone? Or this can be used only to upgrade an existing OS of an older version? Pls. help...... F8, boot to safe mode. The default administrator password in null. Remove all users except default administrator. Create new user with full administrator rights and the password of your choice. You really need to start from a blank hard drive since you don't know the PC's history. Although marginal for actual usage, the minimum PC hardware requirements are usually listed on the XP installation sleeve. Believe the qualifying products for installation to proceed are listed on the sleeve for the retail upgrade version of XP. -- Dave |
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