upgrading from millennium to windowsxp home edition

i have all the requirments on my system but i wanted to
know if xp will work ok on a dial modem. also i wanted to
know if my modem speed was 14.4 kbps and how you tell.
it's a 900mzh 128. thanks. johnny

"johnny" wrote:

i have all the requirments on my system but i wanted to
know if xp will work ok on a dial modem. also i wanted to
know if my modem speed was 14.4 kbps and how you tell.
it's a 900mzh 128. thanks. johnny

See former MVP Gary Woodruff's article on upgrading to Windows XP at
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpupgrad.htm

As for your modem, if you let the mouse hover over the connection icon
in the system tray (bottom right corner of the screen beside the
clock) a pop-up will tell you the speed that you are connected at.
That will give you an idea as to how fast your modem is, although it
is possible for a poor quailty phone line to make a modem operate at
less than its maximum speed.

If your computer has a 900 mhz CPU and only 128 mb of RAM you should
seriously consider adding more RAM to it, preferably at least another
256 mb, if you are going to upgrade to Windows XP. Otherwise you will
find the performance disappointing.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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