[ale] OT: Winxp Aside

[Kilroy, Chris]

>
->Win98 is pretty much dead in the water as far as M$ is 
->concerned. But it
->sure plays games well.
->
I dont think Win98 is a better gaming OS than XP Pro.  Mostly because of memory issues.  If you have a decent gaming box, you have at least 500mb of memory, and probably have at least 128mb on your video card.   Win98 is not gonna use that properly. 

the ONLY reason i own a MS license is because of one of the games i like to play, and it runs so much better on XP than 98 it isnt even funny.  oh yeah and it actually can stay up for days in a row without crashing.

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->My understanding is that the XP Home upgrade will upgrade from 98. The
->XP Pro upgrade will upgrade from win2k. To blow away a hosed partition
->and reinstall using XP will require the full version. 
->
->Sadly, this is what you want unless you want to install 98 and THEN
->upgrade to XP the next time the box gets fried.
->
->You can get win2k from places like HL Computer ($179-OEM).
->
->On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 19:26, David S. Jackson wrote:
->> I have a friend whose existing Win98 fe installation is 
->pretty well and
->> truly hosed.  I recommended that he dump 98fe to something 
->a little more
->> stable, and XP was all there was in the store.  His 98 
->installation is
->> so hosed that I don't think it would support an XP upgrade. 
-> Can I just
->> reformat the partition and install XP to a fresh partition 
->and let XP
->> ask me for an original 98 CD to prove he qualifies for the upgrade?
->> Will the upgrade version of XP even do that?  Or will it 
->require that he
->> gets the "full version" of XP?
->> 
->> I don't want to make things any worse for him than they are, so I'd
->> better know that info up front before I wipe the partition 
->for him.  :-)
->> 
->> TIA!
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