X P upgrade

[J. Fry]

I have a windows 95 that I would like to upgrade to the
XP .The XP I have looked at says it will upgrade 2000
Millenium.Is there a nother way to achieve the XP software?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

One cannot upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows XP.

Run the Windows XP Upgrade Advisor:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.asp

Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP]


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I have a windows 95 that I would like to upgrade to the
| XP .The XP I have looked at says it will upgrade 2000
| Millenium.Is there a nother way to achieve the XP software?

 

[e. phemera]

I have a windows 95 that I would like to upgrade to the
XP .The XP I have looked at says it will upgrade 2000
Millenium.Is there a nother way to achieve the XP software?

and if it's running '95 you'd probably be doing yourself a diservice
installing xp on this machine. time to get another box! and prepare
yourself for the learning curve, and for the fact you're gonna have to
leave somethings behind...and it's not going to be a computer like an old
pair of comfortable house shoes...these shoes (like this computer) are
going to be tight fitting and will take some getting used to...

 

[Ken Blake]

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I have a windows 95 that I would like to upgrade to the
XP .The XP I have looked at says it will upgrade 2000
Millenium.Is there a nother way to achieve the XP software?

You can not upgrade from Windows 95, but you can use a Windows 95
as proof of a previous qualifying version when doing a clean
installation of Windows XP with the upgrade version.

However, note that it's doubtful that a 95-era computer is
adequate for Windows 95. Run the Microsoft Upgrade Advisor at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.asp

 

[Alex Nichol]

One cannot upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows XP.

But you can use the 95 CD as evidence of entitlement in doing a clean
install with an XP upgrade CD.

It is however very doubtful that a Win95 machine will have anywhere near
the CPU power or RAM to run XP - you need more than the recommended
128MB of RAM to be effective at all, and something like a 350 plus MHz
CPU - and a 10GB HD.