Upgrading to Windows XP

[TheBig1]

Originally posted by Mal
SO strictly it's not legal as it's not a brand new computer (Me, I'm a person who thinks if an organisation only finds 1 person out of a 1,000,000, it will be me they find).

I've got an Athlon 800 & 128ram.

Microsoft say that 128 is okay. Don't know how to upgrade & cannot afford to either.

Thank you everyone for your advice by the way....

Technically you are not breaking the law by buying the product (so long as it has the licence document with it)

If the copy you buy (IE the licence number) is not used by anyone else then you will not be caught

128MB of RAM is just over £20 these days and installation is childs play, taking around 2 minutes including opening your case and closing it again. The money you save by buying second hand is going to more than cover the cost and you will see great benefits

[Mal]

I have now got xp and it's top. It seems to be more user friendly, quicker and reliable. I've not had one program "not responding" yet. The only problems I had was when I installed my firewall & AV.

[darkangel]

Originally posted by Mal
I've not had one program "not responding" yet. The only problems I had was when I installed my firewall & AV.

noo don't say that you'll jinx it [img]Download Failed (1)[/img]
what firewall u have norton 2001?

[Mal]

Originally posted by darkangel
noo don't say that you'll jinx it
what firewall u have norton 2001?

Damn!

I've got Norton 2002 AV & P. Firewall. Sorted now though.

Originally posted by Nidge
XP shouldn't be on a machine full stop. It's a total waist of time effort and money. When I find the drivers for this machine that work on NT it's goodbye XP.

You love NT huh?
Well isnt XP built on NT technology.....infact if windows 2000 was NT5 then XP is technically NT6.
From what I have seen it has indeed come form NT. But retained some of the friendliness of 9X.

NT was a great OS, as long as you didnt want to play games on it, XP has overcome this barrier.