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OEM vs Upgrade edition - activation and reinstalling
Costas. c...@marinachart.com microsoft public windowsxp general i've been reading these boards for a couple weeks now and everywhere i turn i see people saying that a clean install of XP would be the best bet rather than the upgrade. Although i see the obvious advantages of such a move, i see a number of

Clean install vs. Upgrade for Windows XP Professional.
Michael svban...@bellsouth.net microsoft public windowsxp general Everyone can keep repeating 'clean install is best' till they are blue in the face. but an upgrade seems to be better for many machines. Mine in particular upgrades smooth, operates from that point with no problems, I eventually managed to mess it up

Windows 95 clean install vs. upgrade
XP will see Win98 as the qualifier and allow the install. The only problem with that is he will not have a way to install any bundled software that would be carried over with an upgrade. If he needs to clean install XP again, he will need to restore back to 98 and go through the procedure again.

Inplace Upgrade vs Fresh install
#2) Are OpenGL games bright enough (without resorting to tweaks or tricks) the biggie #3) Did you do a clean install or did you upgrade? I suspect that the problem is with upgraded systems. On the machines I have access to, the ones that were clean installs all work perfectly. Those that are upgrades do not work

WinXP Upgrade vs. OEM Full Version
nospam.invalid alt comp os windows-xp microsoft public windowsxp 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.

Full install VS upgrade
I'm probably going to do a clean install and see if that improves performance but I wanted to know what your thoughts were. Thanks, I had to do a clean install. I'd installed 8.0 on a Sony Picturebook C1VN 1.5 weeks ago, and then the 8.1 final came out, so I thought it would be an easy matter to do the upgrade.

Windows ME special upgrade vs upgrade version
Everyone can keep repeating 'clean install is best' till they are blue in the face. but an upgrade seems to be better for many machines. Mine in particular upgrades smooth, operates from that point with no problems, I eventually managed to mess it up enough to re-install the software..which led me to a clean

clean install vs upgrade
My hardware is perfectly capable of handling the new OS and a clean install is better but does anyone know why an Upgrade shows performance lags? I am looking for specific examples as to why upgrading the current OS shows slower performance than a clean install. John, I have never seen any concrete example of

Clean install vs. Upgrade
You are confusing the upgrade CD versus the full retail CD and an OS upgrade versus a clean install. You can do a stable clean install of XP from an upgrade CD. You just have to have the qualifying ME CD handy when you do your install. With the full CD you don't need any other CD to use as proof of qualification

Upgrade NT to 2000 Server Vs. Clean Install
Stephanie Scott scot...@stjohns.edzone.net novell support zenworks patch-management My subscription host points to novell.patchlinksecure.net:80 and my account id is all zeros This is a clean ZenWork Patch Management 6.3 install on a Windows 2003 server. Stephanie Scott St. Johns Public Schools 501 W. Sickles St.

Clean install vs. Upgrade
Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] sbrad...@pacbell.net microsoft public windows server sbs One can always do a clean install with any "upgrade" product as it will get to a point to where it asks for qualifying product... you stick in the other cdrom it says "okay feed me the original cdrom" and it goes

RC1 question UPGRADE vs. CLEAN INSTALL
Shaun Pond sh...@false.email novell support zenworks patch-management Stephanie, argh you're posting in html, many newsreaders can't see what you're posting... The 443 isn't new, but the server it's pointing to is, it's different to previous versions. You can change to 80 if you wish, and your data to the server

clean install vs upgrade
nospam.invalid> wrote: 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 installation, you can totally format your drive and install a fresh

upgrading to Windows XP: upgrade vs clean install: how to ...
Some books say Windows 95 can only be installed as an upgrade from DOS or an earlier Windows version. But Microsoft's website seems to say that it can be installed on a clean system. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q138349 Anybody know the answer? MANY THANX TO ANYBODY WHO CAN HELP!

Upgrade vs Clean Install
Could you include reference to a site that list the steps involved in performing an upgrade vs a clean install? Thanks Demecka Richardson I went for a clean install. It has its problems but there's probably all sorts of rubbish lurking within your FAT drives. -- Julian Richards julian-richa...@ntlworld.com "My son

Upgrade vs Clean Install
Phant...@nospam.invalid alt comp os windows-xp microsoft public windowsxp microsoft public windowsxp newusers 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 installation

Clean vs "upgrade install"
So if you back up your data files and wipe your drive clean, do you have to reinstall your previous Windows so the XP upgrade sees it, or can you just show it the CD for an upgradeable version of Windows at some point? Or do you have to leave the previous install on the drive and use the "reformat" option to wipe

Clean install vs upgrade and move
A number of posts have suggested that an OEM version can only be used for a clean install and not to upgrade a previous MS OS. May require clean install, but some say they've had no trouble with that. 2. Retail Upgrade edition. Permits upgrading, but some have had experience of it not upgrading OEM Win98SE,

Upgrade Vs. Clean install of windows 2000 server.
Kent W. England XP MVP k...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment  a clean install does not require a format. You can clean install XP on top of another OS and many of the existing folders will remain, but the new account folders will be empty. That said, I have heard complaints of extraneous folders

Upgrade versus full install
Tom Porterfield tppor...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp newusers Don M wrote: Is there a difference beteen an "upgrade version of Windows XP and a "full" version? Can I use the "Upgrade version to do a "Clean install if I think reminants of WIN98 are causing grief? If I do a clean install will of Windows XP