I currently use Win 2000 for my OS, I want to change to XP. If I nstall XP
over Win 2000 what happens to the other files?
George

"George Lawshe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I currently use Win 2000 for my OS, I want to change to XP. If I nstall XP
> over Win 2000 what happens to the other files?
> George

Which other files? Your data?

Back up your data before doing any such upgrade. Upgrades often go well,
but things can go wrong.

You may have better options. A Win2K computer is about 8 years old. You
can find, for around $200, a pentium 4 3gHz brand-name system, with a DVD
drive (not burner), 40 gig SATA drive, and 512+ meg RAM (expandable to 4) ,
AND with a valid XP license. No monitor. Now, you need to be careful
when shopping for these as some won't come with the disks you do actually
need, but many do.

This should yield a much better result than upgrading your old system.

HTH
-pk

For $299 you can get a system with a dual core processor, XP, 120GB hard
drive, and I believe it was 1GB (or 2GB I forget) memory. No monitor.

This was at one of the retail stores.. I forget which one, but I think
Office Depot.

"Patrick Keenan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "George Lawshe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4DEDFF11-E92A-4FD9-938A-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I currently use Win 2000 for my OS, I want to change to XP. If I nstall
>>XP
>> over Win 2000 what happens to the other files?
>> George
>
> Which other files? Your data?
>
> Back up your data before doing any such upgrade. Upgrades often go well,
> but things can go wrong.
>
> You may have better options. A Win2K computer is about 8 years old.
> You can find, for around $200, a pentium 4 3gHz brand-name system, with a
> DVD drive (not burner), 40 gig SATA drive, and 512+ meg RAM (expandable to
> 4) , AND with a valid XP license. No monitor. Now, you need to be
> careful when shopping for these as some won't come with the disks you do
> actually need, but many do.
>
> This should yield a much better result than upgrading your old system.
>
> HTH
> -pk
>

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:06:02 -0800, George Lawshe
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I currently use Win 2000 for my OS, I want to change to XP. If I nstall XP
> over Win 2000 what happens to the other files?



If no problems occur, nothing happens to any other files.

But however unlikely an occurrence of a problem is, it is not
impossible. For that reason the prudent course of action is to be sure
that before starting the upgrade, you have a backup of everything you
can't afford to lose.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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On Feb 18, 2:19*am, "Patrick Keenan" <t...@dev.null> wrote:
> "George Lawshe" <GeorgeLaw...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>
> news:4DEDFF11-E92A-4FD9-938A-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> >I currently use Win 2000 for my OS, I want to change to XP. *If I nstall XP
> > over Win 2000 what happens to the other files?
> > George
>
> Which other files? * Your data?
>
> Back up your data before doing any such upgrade. * Upgrades often go well,
> but things can go wrong.
>
> You may have better options. * A Win2K computer is about 8 years old. * *

He didn't say how old the computer was, just that he was using W2K.

I built this computer 2 yrs ago and was running W2K until last Sept.