Greetings --

   With a little advance planning and preparation, you should be
fine.

   Have you made sure that your PC's hardware components are capable
of supporting WinXP?  This information will be found at the PC's
manufacturer's web site, and on Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility
List:  (http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp)   Additionally, run
Microsoft WinXP Upgrade Advisor to see if you have any incompatible
hardware components or applications.

   You should, before proceeding, take a few minutes to ensure that
there are WinXP device drivers available for all of the machine's
components.  There may not be, if the PC was specifically designed for
Win98.  Also bear in mind that PCs designed for and sold with Win9x/Me
very often do not meet WinXP's much more stringent hardware quality
requirements.  This is particularly true of many models in Compaq's
consumer-class Presario product line or HP's consumer-class Pavilion
product line.  WinXP, like WinNT and Win2K before it, is quite
sensitive to borderline defective hardware (particularly motherboards,
RAM and hard drives) that will still support Win9x.

HOW TO Prepare to Upgrade Win98 or WinMe
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q316639

Bruce Chambers

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