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Hi - There have been some opinions posted that if I'm moving from
WIN98SE to XP, I should do a clean install. Like motherhood, this is
hard to argue against. But my WIN98SE machine is well-maintained (i
installed all SW myself, I keep it clean of unneeded or rogue apps, I
run adaware and scandisk daily, and Mcafee continually, etc)., it's
quite stable, and the time it would take to manually re-install ALL my
apps and migrate over all my data files, and make sure everything works,
would be measured in days. So I see two options
1) Upgrade - is this really such a bad idea for a sophisticated user?
Upgrade Advisor found virtually no problems, and from reading "...Inside
out", it looks like Msoft went to a lot of effort to make this work.
2) Setup a dual boot, and re-install the apps I use a lot (if they need
it). This seems less painful than starting over, and gives me an 'out'
if an old app won't run. The way I understand it - I don't need
multiple copies of the apps. Some (that don't rely much on the windows
directory or registry), will just run. Some might run but revert to
default values (since they're referencing a different O/S folder and
registry) and some may require re-installation (but the data files will
stay put). So this is sort of a new O/S (that I have to re-setup my
environment manually, a small pain), without re-installing ALL the apps.
2b) Are the migration tools mentioned in "...inside out" of any use
here? For example, XP hs one that will save settings of most apps
before the XP install, and then restore them (on the same machine)?
would that work with the dual-boot approach?
finally - if I set up dual-boot - will the WIN98SE setup suffer from
'software rot' - i.e., a year from now I'll try to boot and for some
reason it won't work?
thanks!
/j
Hi - There have been some opinions posted that if I'm moving from
WIN98SE to XP, I should do a clean install. Like motherhood, this is
hard to argue against. But my WIN98SE machine is well-maintained (i
installed all SW myself, I keep it clean of unneeded or rogue apps, I
run adaware and scandisk daily, and Mcafee continually, etc)., it's
quite stable, and the time it would take to manually re-install ALL my
apps and migrate over all my data files, and make sure everything works,
would be measured in days. So I see two options
1) Upgrade - is this really such a bad idea for a sophisticated user?
Upgrade Advisor found virtually no problems, and from reading "...Inside
out", it looks like Msoft went to a lot of effort to make this work.
2) Setup a dual boot, and re-install the apps I use a lot (if they need
it). This seems less painful than starting over, and gives me an 'out'
if an old app won't run. The way I understand it - I don't need
multiple copies of the apps. Some (that don't rely much on the windows
directory or registry), will just run. Some might run but revert to
default values (since they're referencing a different O/S folder and
registry) and some may require re-installation (but the data files will
stay put). So this is sort of a new O/S (that I have to re-setup my
environment manually, a small pain), without re-installing ALL the apps.
2b) Are the migration tools mentioned in "...inside out" of any use
here? For example, XP hs one that will save settings of most apps
before the XP install, and then restore them (on the same machine)?
would that work with the dual-boot approach?
finally - if I set up dual-boot - will the WIN98SE setup suffer from
'software rot' - i.e., a year from now I'll try to boot and for some
reason it won't work?
thanks!
/j