Upgrade or New Install

[Guest]

I've got 2000 Pro on my desktop and I'm tired of fighting the Blue Screen - I have Home XP on a Laptop and it works fine. Am I going downhill by reformatting and loading XP Home? I tried upgrading the laptop to XP Pro but then the built in wireless wouldn't work. I'm afraid to upgrade the 2000 Pro on the desktop in case I have problems with ad hoc router setup. I never intend on setting up some high falutin network at home so Pro is probably overkill but my freind gave me a licensed copy (totally legal) so it won't cost anything. I'm looking for some advice as to which way to go. I can't believe Microsoft doesn't have an XP Home upgrade version for 2000 Pro. Maybe it's a money issue

By the way, right now I can't even boot into safe mode - the Blue Screen comes up. The only thing I can do is boot from the CD. Then you get all those registry key disconnects because of multiple accounts. So I'm pretty limited in what I can upgrade to.

 

[Kevin]

Unless you are going to set up a "high falutin network" or other security
sensitive architecture, you don't need XP Pro. You can use the XP install
disk to "upgrade" any other version of Windows, but a clean install is still
your best option. Make sure the hardware you will be using like your
routers, printers, wireless cards and so on are XP compatible before making
the install.

I've got 2000 Pro on my desktop and I'm tired of fighting the Blue

Screen - I have Home XP on a Laptop and it works fine. Am I going downhill
by reformatting and loading XP Home? I tried upgrading the laptop to XP Pro
but then the built in wireless wouldn't work. I'm afraid to upgrade the 2000
Pro on the desktop in case I have problems with ad hoc router setup. I
never intend on setting up some high falutin network at home so Pro is
probably overkill but my freind gave me a licensed copy (totally legal) so
it won't cost anything. I'm looking for some advice as to which way to go.
I can't believe Microsoft doesn't have an XP Home upgrade version for 2000
Pro. Maybe it's a money issue.

By the way, right now I can't even boot into safe mode - the Blue Screen

comes up. The only thing I can do is boot from the CD. Then you get all
those registry key disconnects because of multiple accounts. So I'm pretty
limited in what I can upgrade to.

 

[joust in jest]

Bob:
If you upgrade an OS that is generating blue-screens, you will have a
new OS that generates blue screens. you need to find and fix the cause of
your blue-screens.

steve

I've got 2000 Pro on my desktop and I'm tired of fighting the Blue

Screen - I have Home XP on a Laptop and it works fine. Am I going downhill
by reformatting and loading XP Home? I tried upgrading the laptop to XP Pro
but then the built in wireless wouldn't work. I'm afraid to upgrade the 2000
Pro on the desktop in case I have problems with ad hoc router setup. I
never intend on setting up some high falutin network at home so Pro is
probably overkill but my freind gave me a licensed copy (totally legal) so
it won't cost anything. I'm looking for some advice as to which way to go.
I can't believe Microsoft doesn't have an XP Home upgrade version for 2000
Pro. Maybe it's a money issue.

By the way, right now I can't even boot into safe mode - the Blue Screen

comes up. The only thing I can do is boot from the CD. Then you get all
those registry key disconnects because of multiple accounts. So I'm pretty
limited in what I can upgrade to.