I don't know anything about your Aptiva, but in general you can
upgrade to XP if you have at least a 400MHz Processor, 256MB of
RAM and a 10GB hard drive. But to be sure, run the Microsoft
Upgrade Advisor at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.asp.
By the way, are you sure you need XP Professional rather than XP
Home? XP Professional and XP Home are exactly the same in all
respects, except that Professional has a few features (mostly
related to networking and security) missing from Home. For most
(but not all) home users, these features aren't needed, would
never be used, and buying Professional instead of Home is a waste
of money. For details go to
I upgraded a Dell P3 from WinME (which was an upgrade from Win 98) to WinXP
HE and it works almost perfectly. The only problem I have encountered is
that Task Scheduler does not work, and endless efforts to fix it don't seem
to help. But I think part of the problem is due to the fact that I didn't
erase everything on the disk first, reload the older OS's, and then
upgrade - I think thee is something residual from my earlier stuff that has
it confused.
One word of caution - for whatever reason, the upgrade took about 12 hours
to run. I think the combination of old hardware and the search for
compatible drivers may have been to blame.
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