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I got xp windows update.
I have a laptop with windows 95. Whats the easiest and less costly way to update to xp? |
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Get a new computer. Seriously, if your computer came with Windows 95 on it,
the computer is woefully inadequate for Windows XP. -- Regards, Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) If you knew as much as you thought you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "dave r" wrote in message ... I got xp windows update. I have a laptop with windows 95. Whats the easiest and less costly way to update to xp? |
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Richard is absolutely right. Besides, there's no upgrade path to XP from
Windows 95. Modem Ani "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Get a new computer. Seriously, if your computer came with Windows 95 on it, the computer is woefully inadequate for Windows XP. -- Regards, Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) If you knew as much as you thought you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "dave r" wrote in message ... I got xp windows update. I have a laptop with windows 95. Whats the easiest and less costly way to update to xp? |
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"dave r" wrote:
I got xp windows update. I have a laptop with windows 95. Whats the easiest and less costly way to update to xp? You cannot upgrade your installed Windows 95 to Windows XP. However, assuming that your hardware is fully adequate for Windows XP (the published requirements are overly optimistic, to put it mildly) the following steps will get you up and running with Windows XP. Notes: A. You will have to reinstall all of your application programs after Windows XP is installed. B. You will need to have your original Windows 95 installation CD available. Step 1 - Use the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard on the Windows XP Upgrade CD to save your user data files and program configuration settings to another hard drive partition, a network drive, or a removable backup device (CDRW drive, tape, etc.) See MVP Gary Woodruff's article at http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm Step 2 - Format the hard drive (C: partition if has more than one partition on it) or better yet delete the partition entirely with FDISK. Step 3 - Boot the computer with the Windows XP Upgade CD and install Windows XP. If you deleted the partition in step 2 then you can now create a new NTFS partition for installing Windows XP. If you just reforamtted C: then you can install Windows XP there and the partition will be FAT32. NTFS is better than FAT32 for many reasons, but the differences are not critical or essential in any way. Step 4 - During the Windows XP install process you will be asked to briefly insert your disk from the previous version of Windows, which in your case will be the Windows 95 install CD. Step 6 - When Windows XP is installed then you can reinstall your application programs from the original CDs Step 6 - Run the FASTW from within Windows XP to import the saved data files and configuration settings from Step 1. Good luck Step 2. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP http://aumha.org/alex.htm |
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In ,
dave r typed: I got xp windows update. I have a laptop with windows 95. Whats the easiest and less costly way to update to xp? First of all note that you can not do an upgrade to WIndows XP over the top of WIndows 95. However you *can* use your Windows 95 installation CD, if you have one, as proof of a previous qualifying version when you do a clean installation with your XP Upgrade CD. But if your laptop is a Windows 95-era machine, you may be in store for a host of problems doing this. Needed Windows XP drivers for your laptop may be hard to find, or even completely unavailable. Even if you get it working, running Windows XP on such an old machine is highly unlikely to provide perfromance you'd be happy with. So you're probably much better off either staying with Windows 95 on this machine, or replacing it with a more modern laptop. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup |
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In your case, these 2 "easiest" and "less costly" would be "oxymoron's".
There will be an "easiest" way, go online to Dell or HP or drive to one of your favorite electronics stores, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc and pick out and buy a Laptop with XP (Home, Pro or Media Edition) that your budget will allow. The "less costly" - well depends on what you consider costly, money or sanity, but money wise, follow Ron or Ken's instructions and off you go. For the sanity, well go back to "easiest" method depicted above. -- Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your Service! http://www.google.com Google is your "Friend" "dave r" wrote in message ... I got xp windows update. I have a laptop with windows 95. Whats the easiest and less costly way to update to xp? |
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Post your laptop specs here please.
-- Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp "dave r" wrote in message ... I got xp windows update. I have a laptop with windows 95. Whats the easiest and less costly way to update to xp? |
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