On 23 Jun 2002, at 0:14, Michael Edwards wrote: > I've noticed that opinions seem to > vary about whether it's worth upgrading Windows with older computers. My > Windows 95 does crash rather a lot, but that might be because I've been getting > short on disk space for some time.
On the questions of upgrades, my philosophy has always been that you keep the OS the machine shipped with and never upgrade. The only exception is "patch" upgrades, such as Win95 OSR2 or Win98SE, which are the same OS but with lost of important improvements. The reason for this is that different versions of Windows have completely different hardware requirements, and a machine that shipped with Win95 is not likely to be upgradable at all to Win2K or WinXP, because the hardware simply isn't fast enough for it. However, most computers build since 1999 or so can probably support Win2K, and most computers from the last two years can probably support WinXP, but in both cases, RAM upgrades might be in order. For Win2K I recommend 256MBs minimum, and from what I've heard, WinXP works better the more RAM you give it. As to Win95 crashing, well, what do you mean? The OS locks up? In what circumstances? What program produces the problem? Fix that program and your problem may go away. You also might consider a fresh install of Windows, which will clean all the crud out of the registry and improve reliability immensely. The easiest way to do that is to rename the existing Windows folder and then do a fresh install into a new Windows folder. Generally, this is better than wiping the hard drive because you'll have kept all your old drivers, and also many programs will run fine without needing to be reinstalled. When I do this, I generally copy the Desktop and Start Menu folders from the old Windows directory and then run all the applications in turn to see which ones need to be reinstalled. The programs you don't use you'll never need to install, or you can wait until you need them to install them. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
