Windows 2000 Professional/Windows ME
I presently have Windows 2000 Professional, Windows ME.
I would like to up date to Home XP but need to know if this will hinder my use of Access, Excell, Powerpoint and Word? Will I lose these features? |
Windows 2000 Professional/Windows ME
Windows 2000 Professional is an entirely different operating system than Win
Me. Which do you have? Win Me can be upgraded to either XP Home or XP Pro. I'm not sure about Windows 2000 Pro and suspect that it can only be upgraded to XP Pro. If you install XP as an upgrade you should lose none of your installed programs although one or two will need to be uninstalled first and then reinstalled and others will need to be upgraded. The upgrade advisor will provide all of this information (see below) but you should have no problem in using MS Office once upgraded although some tweaking may be required if it is Office 97, Some users will tell you that you should clean install XP but that isn't really necessary, especially where you wish to retain your existing installed applications since upgrading from Win Me to XP is in effect a clean install of the operating system as, unlike an upgrade from say 98SE to Win Me, you are upgrading the underlying system from one using the 9x kernel to one using the NT kernel. The XP Upgrade Advisor (UpgAdv.exe) can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/h...ng/advisor.asp but note that this is a large program being around 32MB is size. If you only have a dial-up connection it might be worth looking for a magazine that has included the Upgrade Advisor on their cover CD. The advisor will give you a clue as to any XP drivers required that aren't on the XP CD and programs for which you will have to obtain updates. Some applications will have to be uninstalled prior to upgrading after which they can often be reinstalled although in some cases the application will first have to be upgraded to an XP compatible version. The Upgrade Advisor is also included on the XP CD. For a more extensive discussion of upgrading see Gary Woodruff's article at http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpupgrad.htm -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP FFG wrote: I presently have Windows 2000 Professional, Windows ME. I would like to up date to Home XP but need to know if this will hinder my use of Access, Excell, Powerpoint and Word? Will I lose these features? |
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