Windows 95 Upgrade

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Jim Evans - 29 Mar 2004 22:27 GMT

I have a stand alone PC running Windows 95 and need to
upgrade to Windows 2000 or XP. What are my options, are
there any hardware requirement/compatibility implications?

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Tim Slattery - 30 Mar 2004 15:13 GMT

>I have a stand alone PC running Windows 95 and need to
>upgrade to Windows 2000 or XP. What are my options, are
>there any hardware requirement/compatibility implications?

There are certainly hardware compatibility implications. A computer
that's old enough to be running Win95 is unlikely to have the
horsepower to run WinXP, also it's unlikely that XP-compatible drivers
will exist for the hardware. Look here
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.asp
for the XP upgrade advisor, which will tell you whether you computere
can handle XP.

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