Upgrade from an upgrade version

[schimble]

Hi,

I bought Win95 complete retail version, and then an upgrade to Win98.
Can I buy WinXP in upgrade version or have I to buy a new complete version ?
(in other words is it possible to use an upgrade version from a version
which was already an upgrade ?)

Thanks

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You should be able to.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

An upgrade version is good.

I used my retail Win98 (gold) upgrade CD as qualifying media to do a clean
install of XP Home. (I believe that XP Pro is no different.)

You are only supposed to use the qualifying media with a single XP upgrade,
but there are no checks on this. (You don't even need to enter a product key
for the qualifying media.) That much "casual piracy" is still possible. As I
only run XP on a single PC, that's not personally relevant.

That is in the USA. I expect that licensing is similar for other countries,
but I don't know.

Address scrambled. replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Hi,

I bought Win95 complete retail version, and then an upgrade to Win98.
Can I buy WinXP in upgrade version or have I to buy a new complete version ?
(in other words is it possible to use an upgrade version from a version
which was already an upgrade ?)

Yes, the upgrade version will work in your case. BUT ... if your
machine is old enough that it once ran Win95, are you really sure that
it will be capable of running WinXP?

 

[Ken Blake]

Hi,

I bought Win95 complete retail version, and then an upgrade to Win98.
Can I buy WinXP in upgrade version or have I to buy a new complete
version ?

An upgrade version is sufficient.

(in other words is it possible to use an upgrade version
from a version which was already an upgrade ?)

Yes.

*However*, this sounds like a very old machine. Unless it's had substantial
hardware upgrades, it probably incapable of running Winodws XP with anything
approaching acceptable performance. Don't even consider XP unless you have
at least a 400MHz or so processor, 256MB of RAM, and a 10GB hard drive; even
those specs are far from ideal, but are practical minimums.

 

[schimble]

Yes, the upgrade version will work in your case. BUT ... if your
machine is old enough that it once ran Win95, are you really sure that
it will be capable of running WinXP?

Thank you all for the answers.
Of course the machine is not with the same hardware as the first time I
installed Win95.
The machine is recent, I regularly change its components.