May I instal XP on my daughter's PC?

[Stan in South Africa]

My daughter has a verrrry old PC running Windows 2000 - verrrry slow.
She has given me the task of speeding up the PC and making it useable for my
6 year old grand-daughter to play games, brows the web, etc.
I have a Windows XP Pro Disc with productKey. I also have a Windows XP Home
Disc with product key
(I run Windows XP Pro both on my own PC & Laptop)
Any advice in this regard will be appreciated.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

My daughter has a verrrry old PC running Windows 2000 - verrrry slow.
She has given me the task of speeding up the PC and making it useable for
my 6 year old grand-daughter to play games, brows the web, etc.
I have a Windows XP Pro Disc with productKey. I also have a Windows XP
Home Disc with product key
(I run Windows XP Pro both on my own PC & Laptop)
Any advice in this regard will be appreciated.

If the product key is unused then you ***may*** install WinXP
on your daughter's PC. Whether you ***should*** is another
question: The machine will run considerably slower under WinXP
than under Win2000, in particular if it has less than 256 MBytes
of RAM.

 

[Mark]

Depending on the specs of your computer you might be better off reinstalling
Windows 2000.

Mark

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My daughter has a verrrry old PC running Windows 2000 - verrrry
slow. She has given me the task of speeding up the PC and making it
useable for my 6 year old grand-daughter to play games, brows the
web, etc. I have a Windows XP Pro Disc with productKey. I also have a
Windows
XP Home Disc with product key
(I run Windows XP Pro both on my own PC & Laptop)
Any advice in this regard will be appreciated.

Windows XP will not improve the performance of the computer.
You would need an additional license to do this anyway.

Clean install Windows 2000 and get more system memory.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Please give the specs for the computer. The other posters have indicated
that XP may be inappropriate depending on it's age. That may well be but
without the specs no one can really say. Give the make and model, memory,
hard drive size, etc.

 

[Stan in South Africa]

Will investigate and let you know
How do I obtain those specs out of a Win 2000 machine?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Will investigate and let you know
How do I obtain those specs out of a Win 2000 machine?

Belarc Advisor...
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

 

[Shenan Stanley]

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Will investigate and let you know
How do I obtain those specs out of a Win 2000 machine?

Belarc Advisor...
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

In addition...
Windows XP Upgrade Advisor
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/advisor.mspx