Somewhat XP releated

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Greg Kamer

Hi All,
I recently purchased a new computer that came with Windows XP
pre-installed. I had my own purchased copy of Windows XP on my old computer
as well.

I decided I wanted to keep my old hard drive and install it in the new
computer as a 2nd drive for my video projects. I formatted the old drive and
stuck it in as a D drive. That worked fine.

Of course that left me with my old case and other components. My old system
was a 1ghz AMD system with 194 meg of ram. A friend had an old Pentium 2
system, not very fast and somewhat under powered by todays standards. She
was running Win98 on that system. I decided to give her my old stuff and
just install her hard drive in the old system. It took a little fine tuning,
but we got things squared away, and her "new" system was up and running
fine.

Tonight, she called to tell me she had tried to open a Word file on her
"new" system, and it asked her for the Word XP install disk.....Seems my old
system thinks XP is supposed to be installed on her hard drive. She asked
what was going on, and I told her I did not know, but I'd ask the pro's
here.

So, whats going on?
 
from the said:
Hi All,
I recently purchased a new computer that came with Windows XP
pre-installed. I had my own purchased copy of Windows XP on my old computer
as well.

I decided I wanted to keep my old hard drive and install it in the new
computer as a 2nd drive for my video projects. I formatted the old drive and
stuck it in as a D drive. That worked fine.

Of course that left me with my old case and other components. My old system
was a 1ghz AMD system with 194 meg of ram. A friend had an old Pentium 2
system, not very fast and somewhat under powered by todays standards. She
was running Win98 on that system. I decided to give her my old stuff and
just install her hard drive in the old system. It took a little fine tuning,
but we got things squared away, and her "new" system was up and running
fine.

Tonight, she called to tell me she had tried to open a Word file on her
"new" system, and it asked her for the Word XP install disk.....Seems my old
system thinks XP is supposed to be installed on her hard drive. She asked
what was going on, and I told her I did not know, but I'd ask the pro's
here.

So, whats going on?
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Which version of Word/Office does she think she's running? Note the
system asked for WORD XP .. that doesn't imply anything about the OS
(you can use Word XP with a range of OSs .. probably even with Win98,
although I've not tried that one .. certainly works OK with Win2k).
 
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