Installation over 98

[John Halloff]

I have a computer with Windows 98 on it. I am able to make
a telephone line connection, but Internet Explorer is
usually unable to open my home page. If by chance it does,
I can't move from it because IE can not open any other
site.

If I upgrade to xp home edition, will the fact that the IE
is not functioning properly interfere with the
installation? Will I carry along the problem?

Another question, is 64 mb of ram adequate for the use of
xp? I'm not into games or any esoteric stuff.

Thank for the help.
John H

 

[Chris Lanier]

XP will run on 64MB of RAM, but i would not suggest doing so. Windows 2000
might be a better chioce for that PC.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I have a computer with Windows 98 on it. I am able to make
a telephone line connection, but Internet Explorer is
usually unable to open my home page. If by chance it does,
I can't move from it because IE can not open any other
site.

If I upgrade to xp home edition, will the fact that the IE
is not functioning properly interfere with the
installation? Will I carry along the problem?

Another question, is 64 mb of ram adequate for the use of
xp? I'm not into games or any esoteric stuff.

Thank for the help.
John H

It's less likely that the problem is with OE than with the TCP/IP parts
underneath, though there may be a proxy setting in IE that's confusing the
issue. Do other internet apps work? Have you tried a version of another
browser? If you use winipcfg (start,run, winipcfg) to release and renew
the IP address, does that help at all?

I would not recommend installing XP on 64 meg. It *will* run but it will be
slow, and your hardware may or may not be supported - do not assume that it
is, check thoroughly. After the purchase and install is not the time to
find that things like printers or scanners or backup devices won't work or
cause the OS to crash.

It's likely simpler to fix the existing problem than to upgrade. A simple
but careful re-install of w98 may fix things, as well.

HTH
-pk

 

[Ken Blake]

In

XP will run on 64MB of RAM, but i would not suggest doing so.
Windows 2000 might be a better chioce for that PC.

I think it's highly unlikely that anyone will be satisfied with
the performance of either Windows XP or 2000 with only 64MB.

 

[Chris Lanier]

I have run Win2K on 32MB of RAM. I would not recommend it, but it's better
then 98. That is if you would like to run a version of NT.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I have run Win2K on 32MB of RAM. I would not recommend it, but it's
better then 98. That is if you would like to run a version of

NT.


It's hard for me to imagine that 32MB of RAM could possibly run
better with Windows 2000 than with 98. I wouldn't even want to
run 98 with so little RAM.