"tysteel" wrote in message
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I have an old computer I'd like to upgrade from Windows 98.
Unfortunately, it seems that a lot of applications and add-ons no
longer support 98, so I'm interested in upgrading the computer OS,
rather than just throwing it away.

The computer is a Hewlett Packard Pavilion, and it has 46MB ram. It
was purchased back in 1998, but surprisingly it still runs great.

What could I upgrade it to.....what OS package should I seek out?
I've read the requirements of XP, and it's required that you need to
at least have 64 MB ram minimum?

1. Go to the HP web site and find out how much RAM your particular
model can use. WinXP requires at least 128 Mb for efficiency,
preferably 512 Mb. RAM chips are now cheap.
2. What hardware (e.g. printers) or software (e.g. music editing)
would be enabled by another OS because Win98 does not support them?
3. You may or may not bound to Windows: several Linux interfaces are
familiar to Windows users.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)