Upgrade ME?

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My brother-in-law has Windows ME and wnats to have XP. Somebody who wants to
charge a lot of money has told him you cannot upgrade ME to XP. I thought
you could.
Putting aside the usual arguements for and against upgrade over clean
install. can ME be upgraded with the appropriate XPSP2 CD? Is there a
cheaper upgrade CD or do you just buy the full one?
 
Dave A said:
My brother-in-law has Windows ME and wnats to have XP. Somebody who wants
to
charge a lot of money has told him you cannot upgrade ME to XP. I thought
you could.
Putting aside the usual arguements for and against upgrade over clean
install. can ME be upgraded with the appropriate XPSP2 CD? Is there a
cheaper upgrade CD or do you just buy the full one?
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The upgrade CD will do it, but make sure the machine is capable.

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neither liberty or security"
 
As told you already, the upgrade CD will do the job.. however, you really do
need to be in possession of an ME CD, because if you have to re-install, you
will need an original ME CD as qualifying material..
 
Dave said:
My brother-in-law has Windows ME and wnats to have XP. Somebody who
wants to charge a lot of money has told him you cannot upgrade ME to
XP. I thought you could.
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You are correct and the "somebody" is wrong.

Putting aside the usual arguements for and against upgrade over clean
install. can ME be upgraded with the appropriate XPSP2 CD? Is there a
cheaper upgrade CD or do you just buy the full one?
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There is an Upgrade CD and since it's cheaper than the Full version and he
qualifies for it, that's what he should buy.
 
Ken Blake said:
You are correct and the "somebody" is wrong.





There is an Upgrade CD and since it's cheaper than the Full version and he
qualifies for it, that's what he should buy.
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Thanks to Frank, Mike and Ken for the answers. Mike mentioned something I
forgot though - the upgrade CD would require the original ME CD at some point
(during the upgrade or only after the upgrade if needing to re-install?) so
I'd better make sure he has the CD somewhere!

Thanks again all
 
Dave said:
Thanks to Frank, Mike and Ken for the answers. Mike mentioned
something I forgot though - the upgrade CD would require the original
ME CD at some point (during the upgrade or only after the upgrade if
needing to re-install?) so I'd better make sure he has the CD
somewhere!

Thanks again all
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You're welcome. Glad to help.
 
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