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DHolk - 01 Mar 2004 05:03 GMT

Is there such a thing as an upgrade from Win 95 to Win XP
Home Edition?

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 01 Mar 2004 05:20 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>Is there such a thing as an upgrade from Win 95 to Win XP
>Home Edition?
>.
>if your running 95, my guess is that your system is

older and you won't have enough memory to upgrade and
your motherboard won't allow a bios flash to upgrade the
memory sufficient to run XP

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Tim Slattery - 01 Mar 2004 14:04 GMT

>Is there such a thing as an upgrade from Win 95 to Win XP
>Home Edition?

Win95 can be used as a qualifying product for the WinXP upgrade CD,
but WinXP will not upgrade a Win95 installation. You'd have to remove
Win95 from your system, then when the Xp Upgrade disk ask for proof of
a qualifying product, simply insert your Win95CD into the drive.

But before trying this, make SURE that your hardware will handle XP.
If your computer is old enough to be running Win95, odds are very poor
that it will be able to handle XP.

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 02 Mar 2004 01:47 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>Is there such a thing as an upgrade from Win 95 to Win XP
>Home Edition?
>.
>REPLY just a guess but I think you would need to do

Windows 98 or Me before you could do XP

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Jon_Hildrum - 02 Mar 2004 13:43 GMT

No, you cannot upgrade from win95 to WinXP. However, win95 CD will serve as
a qualifying product for a clean install of XP using the retail upgrade
version.

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> >REPLY just a guess but I think you would need to do
> Windows 98 or Me before you could do XP

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