installing XP

[Frustrated!]

I have a Gateway Pentium 4 with Win ME. I want to upgrade
to WIN XP.

I also have a Canon Multipass C755 Multifuntion
printer/scanner/fax/copier that I LOVE and do NOT want to
replace.

I have just set up my three computers in a home network
and do not want to loose them offline, either. they are a
Compaq (Celeron processor) running Win 98 and an old
Hewlett Packard running Win 95.

When I try to install Win XP it gives me a long list of
things that must be deleted before I can continue -
including my printer. it gives me a website to go to- to
look for compatability with WIN XP - that MS has deleted.
it no longer exisits. No Canon printers are listed in the
compatable catalogue, and I don't want to buy a NEW
printer anyway.

I also have other hardware/software in the same situation -
a Mira Scan flatbed scanner, Palm pilot, a Kyocera
camera, a newly purchased Norton Anti-virus system that
Win XP says I must delete and possibly, re-install.... IF
it is compatable AFTER I install Win XP. One of the main
things they want removed is Gateway's "Go-Back" a program
that allows me to go back to previous settings if an
installation of something new royally screws up my
computer. I don't know if this can be re-installed
separately after WIN XP, or not.

When I try to write MS support, it wants a product code
that I can get only after WIN XP is installed - and I
can't install it. I can't find the 'product code' anywhwer
on the package that matches the format they are looking
for.

i don't want to install Win XP (or delete
software /hardware) until I KNOW my stuff can be re-
installed afterward - and MS won't tell me what i need to
know.

of course, to find all this out, i have wasted 2 1/2 hours
and opened the *&^*%$&ing package and can't return it.

Can anyone tell me where i can find out which EXISTING
(not new) hardware/ software is compatable with WIN XP?

Is there a fix for Norton system works to work with Win
XP?

ARe there any other big pitfalls of Win XP that they don't
tell you until it's too late?

if anyone has any answwers to these, please relply to my e-
mail box at tlaurat7@hotmail(remove this).com - As I have
no idea if i will ever be able to find this forum again on
this (*&^&%)ing confusing site!

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

 

[Yves Leclerc]

For your info: This would be the only place you will find the answer to
your query. Newsgroups posted questions will only have answers posted on
the newsgroup.

You must check with ALL the manufacturer of the components you do not wish
to replace. If they do not offer a XP driver, then you might try the
Windows 2000 drivers. If this does not work, then the manufacturer may say
that the hardware is too old for them to support in XP and they want you to
replace it (Think carefully!!!)


Gateway's "Go Back" (made by Roxio??) is not compatible, directly, with XP.
You may have to upgrade it, of use XP System Restore.

Norton Anti-Virus must be un-installed before upgrading to XP. It will
block the writing of the new XP file and the Windows 9x version is not the
same as the XP version. Starting with version 2002, Norton Anti-Virus will
work with XP.

Norton SystemWorks also has to be removed. Version 2002 (or greater) has a
different set of programs, which are XP compatible. They are on the install
CD.


For software and hardware compatibility, look for the Windows Catalog on
Microsoft's web site.

As for the product id key, by entering the CD Key during the installation,
XP will generate it.


The BIGGEST pitfalls to XP is that there are still a lot of programs (mainly
games) that do/will not work in XP and no updates are planned.


Y.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a Gateway Pentium 4 with Win ME. I want to upgrade
to WIN XP.

I also have a Canon Multipass C755 Multifuntion
printer/scanner/fax/copier that I LOVE and do NOT want to
replace.

Go to

http://www.usa.canon.com/html/conCp...&section=10275&pname=MultiPASS C755&item=7984

Which is one line that will wrap several times - or just go to
www.canon.com and work down from the Downloads - America on the lower
left, and there is a link to download a driver for XP for that device