Windows Millenium upgrade to XP Pro???

turnkey4099 · Mar 4, 2007

I made the upgrade from from Millenium (what a chunk a junk!) due to constant crashes. The guru had to add memory, larger power supply and an extra fan IIRC. Also more memory but what a machine now!

Harry K

Kyle_in_Tex · Mar 4, 2007

Thanks for all the input!

So far, I did not reformat the drive due to the Sony Application Recovery Disk not working correctly at bootup. I put in the XP Pro disk and it seemed to overwrite the old Millenium OK. There were a few old Dos type moments concerning the partitions that had me trying to unclog some really old braincells. Now trying to download all the updates with dial up. SSSSLLLLLOOOOOOOOOWWWW. SP2 is 108Megs at 45.2 Kbps (currently downloading).

I'll keep you posted. Our company's rent a geek said you can load an XP system type disk and register about 3 times before Microsoft will raise a flag.

The biggest problem I've had is forgetting to turn off the Messenger before logging on the net to update. I've had maybe 60 windows pop up overnite trying to get me to go to different bogus websites and that my registry was screwed up and my sytem would crash if I didn't visit those sites to fix it. I could see where a total novice would fall for something like that. This AM I turned off Messenger and they've stopped.

tawilson · Mar 4, 2007

Microsoft will send you service pack 2 for free if you ask them. I got 2 after forgetting I already have one.
I have had Microsoft tell me that I have activated my software too many times and they wouldn't activate it again. Well after screwing things up again trying to do a dual boot with W2000 a couple of weeks ago, I reinstalled and activated with no problem. Maybe it's a number of activations in a certain time period where they flag.
And I didn't realize it was Messenger causing all the popups. I thought it was coming from my Direcway installation. The rats.