Upgrade from Win 98 SE

[bstover]

Am trying to upgrade to XP Pro. When I upgrade, all my
icons disappear from 98SE and they are not located on the
start menu either. Further, I can not uninstall Norton
System Works prior to upgrade because it tries to
uninstall Netscape 7.1 instead. tried to follow the
harware compatibility guide but can't uninstall all the
things they want me to. Any ideas?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

If the Win98 Registry is so corrupted that you cannot remove
Norton SystemWorks or other applications, your best course of action
would be to format the hard drive and start clean. Upgrading a
corrupted registry is likely to cause many problems down the road.

Bruce Chambers

--
Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH

 

[serge calderara]

Is it really an upgrade on top of 98 that you are doing or
a clean installation of XP on top of 98?

From 98 you are only able to perform a clean installation
not an upgrade.

Second be sure that all you installed software a re
compatible win XP, probably not, so you will probably nned
to upgrade them as well

good luck
serge

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Is it really an upgrade on top of 98 that you are doing or
a clean installation of XP on top of 98?

From 98 you are only able to perform a clean installation
not an upgrade.

Sorry, that is *not* correct. An upgrade from 98 to XP is indeed
possible, and has been done successfully by *many* people.

Second be sure that all you installed software a re
compatible win XP, probably not, so you will probably nned
to upgrade them as well

On the contrary, although some 98-era software won't run, *most*
Windows programs of that era run without a problem.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

 

[T.C.]

Not only does most of my Windows 98 software run using Windows XP (minus
utilities of course), but Windows 95 programs which wouldn't run using
Windows 98, run fine using the Windows XP Windows 95 Compatibility Mode. I
could kick myself for already having thrown away most of the CDs for the
Windows 95 programs that wouldn't run using Windows 98. BTW, I'm, still
using some Windows 3.1 programs in the Windows 95 Compatibility mode. I'm
not cheap. It's just that software makers, along the way, have forgotten
that less is sometimes more. Many simple programs have become more and more
bloated in their later versions. e.g. The 16bit single page Windows 3.1
version 4.95 of Time and Chaos, a calendar/contacts/things to do program,
lost all of its simplicity when it went to a 32bit version.

T.C.
Pay it forward...
t__cruise@[REMOVE]hotmail.com
Delete [REMOVE] from email address to respond by email