98 SE to XP (home)

John_G66

Hi, I have an Acer Laptop running XP home edition. My desktop runs Windows 98se, I was going to upgrade the Desktop, however, over the past couple of years I have added memory and upped the Graphics aswell as a few other tweeks.

Now the set up discs I got from Acer obviously included a XP OS. Can I upgrade the desktop by putting these discs in and will it then run the XP system, would I need to uninstall anything. Any foreseeable problems?

Cheers...............

spacker_2

John_G66 wrote:

Hi, I have an Acer Laptop running XP home edition. My desktop runs Windows 98se, I was going to upgrade the Desktop, however, over the past couple of years I have added memory and upped the Graphics aswell as a few other tweeks.

Now the set up discs I got from Acer obviously included a XP OS. Can I upgrade the desktop by putting these discs in and will it then run the XP system, would I need to uninstall anything. Any foreseeable problems?

Cheers...............

:rolleyes: I wouldnt bother but, what RAM CP and HDD have you got, and also the WGA will kick in and ask you to pay £60 for a license or you may get away with it.

superscaper

John_G66 wrote:

Any foreseeable problems?

Just legal ones.

Donnie

http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=30680&rl=1

John_G66

Donnie wrote:

http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=30680&rl=1

Cheers Donnie, good link that.

chunter

I would wait a little until Vista sales are is in full flow..
There should be a few "cheaper" XP licenses kicking around then..