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Pastimes : Computer Learning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rrufff who wrote (35175)	7/14/2003 9:26:25 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

rrruff, I upgraded to XP home over Win98 a year ago without problems. Bought the upgrade through Dell. Never used tech support. All I ever needed to know I learned on this thread. :) Gottfried

To: rrufff who wrote (35175)	7/15/2003 6:45:36 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

Is there an advantage to buying a complete XP vs. the upgrade? Since you have a qualifying windows os already installed there is no advantage that I know of. Since you plan on a format/install the upgrade disk will wipe out everything and install the full version. If you were just going to upgrade the previous version of windows the upgrade disk wouldn't wipe out the installed programs, my documents, etc. Wiping the old version and installing fresh is always the best way to go if possible. versions that are sold online that claim to be full installation product but are OEM versions I'm not familiar with this. Do you have a link?