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Originally Posted by Clive Long Flakiness may be due to Viruses (Norton Anti-Virus expired long, long ago) or Win ME (heard bad stories about this) or falky hardware (how would one know?) |
Likely to be just general Windows 9x flakiness.
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Originally Posted by Clive Long Will XP Home run OK in 128Mb or should we put in another 128Mb? |
You want to aim for 512MB, but 384MB (i.e. 128 + 256) would be OK.
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Originally Posted by Clive Long Is this upgrade OK or should we nuke the disk and start with a clean install of XP Home? |
Nuking is always the best option, but you should be able to install as an upgrade, or in parallel with ME.
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Originally Posted by Clive Long There seem to be lots of sellers of XP Home media and licences on EBay wanting around £25 to £40 - but I can't see how that can work out because I guess MSoft has a strangle-hold on the retail price of all its software. So how can these sellers source valid media and licence keys for that money? |
They're probably selling dodgy OEM copies... I assume you know how this works, but in case anyone doesn't... Microsoft sells cheaper OEM licences of Windows to computer manufacturers. These licences are not meant to be available to the public, but there's always someone trying to make a buck by breaking their contact with MS.
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Originally Posted by Clive Long Any ideas on other options to perform this upgrade? |
Buy a second hard disk and install it on that, then put the original back in as a "D" drive.
Hope this helps...
(BTW, this thread really, really belongs in the new Geek's corner forum.
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