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Skriven 2007-06-26 09:35:38 av August Abolins (1:229/2000)
     Kommentar till en text av Sean Dennis
Ärende: annoyance of "activation"
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 SD> Let me give you a word of warning about upgrading ME to XP.  Back when I
 SD> was
 SD> actively working for a tech support monkey for Sears TeleServ, Microsoft
 SD> issued
 SD> us a memo saying that they did NOT recommend doing a DOS-based Windows to
 SD> a
 SD> NT-based Windows upgrade.  Why?  Within three months' time, the DOS-based
 SD> device drivers that didn't get upgraded would get unstable, causing the
 SD> entire
 SD> system to fark.
....
 SD> once upgraded ME to W2K and within four months, the system became
 SD> incredibly
 SD> unstable.

Ah..  good point.  the article you referenced was illuminating too.  I
completely forgot about the FAT32/NTFS "issues" as well.   I would
ultimately prefer an NTFS'd XP system.  So.. even if I were to upgrade from
ME to XP, I would have to retain FAT32 inorder to maintain the option to
revert back to ME if serious problems occured (which you say could develop
after a few months of use).  And once I switch to NTFS, there is no turning
back.  The fine folks in the ME ng's also recommend fresh installs of XP
instead of a "upgrade".


 SD> My personal recommendation: backup all your data and programs if possible,
 SD> blow
 SD> the drive and do a complete fresh install.  You'll thank yourself later
 SD> for it.

A fresh XP (and NTFS) install seems to be the right way to go.  But I would
still have the problem of porting my ME apps and files to the XP system.  It
looks like I would need a second computer to accomplish the transfer.

But if I need a physical 2nd computer, I'm thinking why not just migrate to
a Ubuntu system on that.   For the most part, I can live with open-source
versions of Windows equivalents.  I'd miss Wordperfect for sure.  And I'd
miss SemPoint for the occassional preference of pulling in fidonet stuff via
..PKT.  I'd miss a few other wonderful (and free) winapps such as
Audiograbber.  There are a few others, I'm sure.  :(


 SD> I don't anything higher than W2K; I've never needed the Fisher-Price
 SD> inspired
 SD> desktop or the slight amount of extra goodies XP offers over W2K
 SD> (remember, I
 SD> use it for business use also and don't play games on the system, so I'm
 SD> slightly biased).

I don't play games either.  Well..  maybe except one, but it hardly needs
high performance: Myst.  I purchased later editions of the game via eBay a
few years ago and never got to play them yet!  They need XP.  Hey.. I just
realized that I could do that on my new (used) Thinkpad!   Other than that,
my ME pc is just for photos, music and some business stuff.   I like your
phrase "Fisher-Price inspired desktop".  My sentiments too.  I immediately
switched to "classic" view on my Thinkpads XP when it arrived.

I have quite the dilema.  I can choose to live with the potential
intermittent "surprise" that my ME pc develops (primarily a refresh problem
with Explorer.exe right now - and save a pile of money.   Or.. I need to
spend more $ for a 2nd pc for the purposes of migrating AWAY from Millenium
Edition whether I choose to use Ubuntu or XP.

HEY... this talking-it-out exercise has given me another idea!  As I write
this, I'm at my Thinkpad!  Duh....  I could "port" over my favourite
work-related winapps to this TP.  The photos and my music collection could
be handled by Ubuntu.  I really don't need to convert my existing ME pc to
XP at all.  I could just install Ubuntu on my old desktop!

Hmmm.

Thanks friend for inspiring me to "think" this through better!

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