upgrading to win xp

[DB]

A friend of mine has a computer (Maker is Time) with Windows Millenium
installed on it. She has had it a few years now and it is in a hell of a
mess viruses and trojans etc. I have said I will wipe the machine for her
and get it back to how it was when she bought it. However she does not have
the original win Millenium disk or a rescue disk so I have advised her to
buy the win xp home edition upgrade. I have just thought though that I may
have a problem. Because I want to do a clean install will it not ask me for
the original Millenium disk at some point because you have to show a
previous operating sytem? If it does what can I do? I have my old original
win 98se disk. Would I be able to put that in? Any advice greatfully
received.
TIA
Dave

 

[Piccolo]

A friend of mine has a computer (Maker is Time) with Windows Millenium
installed on it. She has had it a few years now and it is in a hell of a
mess viruses and trojans etc. I have said I will wipe the machine for her
and get it back to how it was when she bought it. However she does not have
the original win Millenium disk or a rescue disk so I have advised her to
buy the win xp home edition upgrade. I have just thought though that I may
have a problem. Because I want to do a clean install will it not ask me for
the original Millenium disk at some point because you have to show a
previous operating sytem? If it does what can I do? I have my old original
win 98se disk. Would I be able to put that in? Any advice greatfully
received.
TIA
Dave

It should work with 98, I have done clean installs for Windows 2000,
2000 Server, and XP pro and for each I just inserted my 98 disk when
it wanted proof. It was also a 98 upgrade disk, but windows did not
seem to care.

 

[DB]

It should work with 98, I have done clean installs for Windows 2000,
2000 Server, and XP pro and for each I just inserted my 98 disk when
it wanted proof. It was also a 98 upgrade disk, but windows did not
seem to care.

Thanks Piccolo. I'll give it a burst.
Cheers Dave

 

[Wayne]

yes that will work however you may want to look if the computer will support
XP and run well you do not mention Processor memory hard drive video etc.


A computer with many viruses Trojans etc.. does not always need to be "blown
away" You should start the computer in DOS mode and run the stinger
applications.

Delete all *.tmp files as well as temporary internet files
then run stinger

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

see how many viruses it will get rid of then install current AV software
download or copy updates from a CD and run a full scan in either dos or safe
mode.

Once the viruses are gone install ad-aware or one of the other spyware
removal programs and run it once updating in safe mode. You should have a
pretty clean machine by then.

that said XP is much better than ME but before upgrading a few years old
computer you should make sure it will work!

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/upgrading/default.mspx

IS your friend a student? there are student versions of XP available that
are at reduced prices? Who does she work for? many companies offer
corporate pricing for Microsoft products as well as with computer companies.
My company has Discounts with Dell HP and IBM sometimes the pricing is good
sometimes not!

Wayne