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Announcements Will Your Windows 98 Upgrade to XP?  It
seems you not only have to jump through hoops to verify that your
computer will upgrade to Windows XP, but it also helps if you are
a Microsoft Certified Engineer prior to performing an XP upgrade.For the second time this year we ran into a problem when upgrading a client's computer from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Microsoft's XP "upgrade" disk is supposed to work on a Windows 98 computer simply by inserting it into the CD drive, rebooting your computer, and the installation is supposed to offer you the "upgrade" option. However, in this case the Windows XP Home Edition upgrade disk failed to "see" the existing installation of Windows 98 and asked us to insert a Windows 98 CD or Startup disk to verify product eligibility. Then it only offered to perform a "new" installation instead of the usual "upgrade". That "new" installation option will wipe out all existing installed software and personal files. The documentation included with Windows XP Upgrade Edition makes no mention of this issue whatsoever. This leaves the average user at a loss for a solution except to call one of the Indian Microsoft support engineers. Now the average user has to work with "Habib" and hope to God they can work through the language barriers. After further research, we found a workaround solution that allowed an "upgrade" installation and preserved most of the client's installed software, files and settings. Even so, the client still has to download new drivers and reinstall some of their software and hardware. All in all, you may want to reconsider before upgrading that older Windows 98 computer to Windows XP. We can custom build a new computer with Windows XP or even Linspire Linux if you are tired of fighting worms, trojans, spyware, and viruses. Plus we're right here in Kerrville and we won't send you to India to deal with "Habib".  Each
week we stumble across interesting and fun sites on the internet.
Passing them along to you means we get to share the good times
and laughs with our clients. We hope you enjoy this particular
section of our newsletter!Bloxmania http://www.jimmygames.net/bloxmania.htm World's Smallest MP3 Player http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2005/07/mobiblu-dah1500-review.php http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3756864 Who Remembers The Cent Sign? http://www.charlieanderson.com/centsign.htm Hosting Tips Your Name Here Put a Google search image on your website and link it to your very own personal or business Google search engine... http://www.logogle.com/ggl.php?hl=ja&lo=Your%20Name%20Here Linspire Tips You Don't Have To Give Up Adobe Acrobat. Linspire's Click 'n Run (CNR) Warehouse has about 2000 software titles available and Adobe Acrobat for Linux is one of them... http://www.linspire.com/lindows_products_details.php?product_id=9041 Windows Tips Top-Ten Spyware Monitor http://research.sunbelt-software.com/top10/index.cfm What Happens When The Cat's Away? http://www.spectorsoft.com/ Tomas |
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