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WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION : UPGRADE vs FULL INSTALL VERSION
I do realize that many people may have badly hosed servers that need scratch replacements do to virus behavior, poor administration, or hardware problems, but I don't see that an upgrade calls for a clean install. If you take a look at the list of files in a Service Pack, then compare them to a new CD,

nVidia vs AGP/DirectX problems - Poll - upgrade or clean install
Malke ma...@invalid.invalid alt comp os windows-xp microsoft public windowsxp newusers Phant...@nospam.invalid wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:51:45 -0600, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote: As long as you have your win98 cd, you can use an XP-upgrade CD to perform a clean install. From within the context of the

OEM vs Upgrade - Home Edition
Hans-Georg Michna hans-georgNoEmailPle...@michna.com microsoft public win2000 setup_upgrade "Brian Hert" <j0l...@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote: Not quite Superman vs Batman, but close. I'm looking for reasons to support either side in a proposal. My gut instinct is clean install for stability, but I don't want to push

XP: clean install vs upgrade
I clean installed Windows 98 to clean out my new system :). Elliot A. Bronstein wrote: That's odd. I did a "clean install" of Windows 98, then installed Office 97, then installed the SR-1 patch with no problems -- If you are replying to Ant's news post by e-mail, please kindly remove ANT in the return e-mail

Clean install vs upgrade and move
When I look in the install/uninstall program function I see it all but not when I look at it from a file perspective. (If try to clean this one any more I am afraid I will break it). If I really need 58 GB I will upgrade my hard drive. Don't really want to go back to XP if I can figure this disk space use out.

Upgrade vs Clean Install
James Ja...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public crm deployment We are startingto prepare for an upgrade from 1.2 to 3.0 and I'm thinking about doing a fresh install and then migrating data from 1.2 to 3. My thought is that if I upgrade 1.2 and it doesn't work, then I have to redeploy 1.2 and hope it works.

Difference "upgrade" vs "full" version of Windows XP ??
Plus the OEM setup engine is designed to install only on a clean drive. MS is plugging the loopholes that allow an OEM version to be installed over an existing OS and the gyrations required to do an upgrade install are getting too risky to be worth the risk. The only other version of 98 that is as restrictive about

Upgrade VS Clean Install
I am talking about doing a clean installation of Windows XP with the Upgrade version when no previous version is installed. Mr. Blake, how can your statement .... How can you do a clean install with an upgrade XP version if you do not have XP installed, a restore partition, restore disks or a qualifying Windows?

Reload vs. In-place Upgrade
JS sulli...@columbus.rr.com.not microsoft public win2000 setup_deployment The 'C:\Windows' folder does not exist on a Clean install of Win2k, so I suppose any apps depending on that, would fail. Also, in the 'properties' box of any 16-bit app shortcuts (right-click->properties), try 'checking' the box for 'run in a

Win2k upgrade vs. Clean Install
If you upgrade, you will live in a world of hurt. Always go with the clean install unless you have absolutely no other alternative. Tom -- Thomas W Shinder MD MCSE MCT TACteam -- Trainers, Authors, Consultants www.shinder.net www.swynk.com/friends/shinder "Tom Watson" <t...@mindspring.com> wrote in message

Oldest versus Newest Game
That is how the upgrade path was tested during the beta testing phase. The "clean install vs upgrade" is not as cut and dry as simply stating that the upgrade is *always more favourable* than doing a clean install". If your hardware is supported by Me and you want to do a clean install you will not have any

nVidia vs AGP/DirectX problems - Poll - upgrade or clean install
I went ahead and did an upgrade of Win 2000 Pro over Win ME instead of a clean install like I should have done. Can I go back and now do a clean install of Windows 2000 Pro given that I just did the upgrade? TIA yes just boot with the 2000 CD and erase the current disk configuration then install 2000 as a clean

Clean install vs. Upgrade. The Microsoft OS Dilemma
Mike With previous versions of Windows, this was indeed true, but with Windows XP, the upgrade is very efficient and very close to a clean install in performance and stability. This does not mean you should just pop in the XP cd and blindly proceed with the upgrade. You should approach any change of OS with careful

Clean install vs upgrade and move
And a clean install is even better than that. If your system has problems with 98 then you should correct them first or do a clean install (assuming you have all the needed drivers). In fact if you have severe problems with 98 you should do a clean install of it if you decide not to upgrade.

OEM vs. Straight Windows 98
The only way you might see further improvement is to wipe everything out, fdisk your disks, create new NTFS partitions, and install clean. Not sure what you mean by "Clean Install over the upgrade." Sounds like asking for trouble. You can convert your current your current file systems to NTFS using the file

Apple II Csa2 FAQs: 2Main-Contents, Part 2/25
Thomas Tootle toot...@m33access.com alt os linux mandrake Michael wrote: yer clean install allways works fine after a clean install "Tom Tootle" <toot...@m33access.com> wrote in message news:xKhv7.3376$2p1.439871@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net... Hi, I upgraded one of my Linux boxes this week to LM8.1 rather than

Fresh vs Upgrade
Could this have anything to do with the fact that I installed it as an upgrade? Would a clean install work better? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I had downloaded the latest video driver for my TNT board from creative. I disabled all acceleration to see if it would help, but it didn't. Thanks, Ric.

Me upgrade vs. clean install
Is a clean install more beneficial? Griffo, a clean install results in a slightly smaller installation that's free of any remains from earlier installations and a slight risk that something interferes. On the other hand, it requires you to reinstall most software from scratch. Hans-Georg -- No mail, please.

Win2k stability? Upgrade vs. Clean Install?
Maintaing support is very important. -- we are using win98SE not win95 osr2, sorry for the confussion. again.. i've still had better experiences w\ the upgrade rather than the clean install. my original intent in posting this was to see if i was the only one who had a better experience upgrading vs clean install.

Moving from W2k to XP with a Big HD
If your system has problems with 98 then you should correct them first or do a clean install (assuming you have all the needed drivers). In fact if you have severe problems with 98 you should do a clean install of it if you decide not to upgrade. I have done many upgrades over 98 with excellent results.