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Strategies & Market Trends : TA-Quotes Plus -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ken Adams who wrote (5072)	7/1/1998 9:25:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 11149

Ken, Its all relative to what you do and what your tolerances. You should never upgrade just because the technology is avaialable. Upgrade because you are unsatisfied with the performance of your system. NOTE: One of the main things that drives this is updating software. Therfore seriosuly consider only upgrading when it buys you something specifically. If your happy with what you have don't change. My mom is still using a 12 year compaq 286 for word processing and accounting and couldn't be happier... Why reformat versus upgrade.... 1. Start with a pure 98 environment. No left over registry entries, dll, or program files that were uninstalled but not ever removed. In reality what these means is a serious reliability infusion at least for a short period of time until the disaster in the \windows directory starts accumulating again. There is no technical reason for this to be true other than microsoft made many poor choices in their OS architectures which make them inherently unstable. 98 is really not any better than 95 in this way. Unfortunately its something we have to do deal with. BTW: I did an upgrade first to check it out and it went very smoothly but was still left with the same quirks and problems I was seeing before that. Clean install did the trick and things appear to be stable for the moment. The only real question is how long will it be before I load the wrong peice of software that starts those troubles all over again.... Sean