upgrade or clean install?

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My pc with a Penthium(R)4, 2.4 ghz, 130mb RAM. 37.3 gb HD with Win 2000 pro hangs and takes awful long to reboot etc. Most windows program that are installed hang up as well. I was advised to reformat and I plan to use XP now. My question is whether to upgrade to Xp or make a clean install of XP. If I upgrade, will I still have the unneeded files that maybe slowing down my PC?
 
Try the upgrade first. XP does a good job of getting the
proper files. If it doesn't run as well as you'd like, you
can always do the clean install.
I suggest you upgrade the RAM to more than 130 MB by adding
a 256 stick.

See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316941

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| My pc with a Penthium(R)4, 2.4 ghz, 130mb RAM. 37.3 gb HD
with Win 2000 pro hangs and takes awful long to reboot etc.
Most windows program that are installed hang up as well. I
was advised to reformat and I plan to use XP now. My
question is whether to upgrade to Xp or make a clean install
of XP. If I upgrade, will I still have the unneeded files
that maybe slowing down my PC?
 
Depends on what is the cause. In your case, I would suggest clean install
(even though I always lean toward upgrades) and install W2K as well and
troubleshoot the differences (if this is due to specific software,etc).

Good luck!

How to Install W2K to its own partition. Use a 98 Startup disk and run
WINNT.EXE from the I386 directory. After 2K is installed, boot with the XP
CD and at the Setup/Repair screen, choose Repair. In Recovery Console, use
the following commands:

1) FIXBOOT, answer Yes
2) CD \
3) ATTRIB -H NTLDR
4) ATTRIB -S NTLDR
5) ATTRIB -R NTLDR
6) ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM
7) ATTRIB -S NTDETEC.COM
8) ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM
9) COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\
10) COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\

In Steps 9 and 10, X is the letter of your CD-Rom drive.

How to Install W2K to its Own Partition after installing XP
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_2k.htm
 
Unlike Kelly, I tend to lean towards clean install by default; call it a
silly need to know that problems that might occur in the future will not be
related to legacy installations. The first time I installed XP was an
upgrade from 98, and for some reason I really wasn't happy with how things
were... I'm not sure why any more, it was some time ago. Also, haven't had
my coffee this morning. =)

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hpum said:
My pc with a Penthium(R)4, 2.4 ghz, 130mb RAM. 37.3 gb HD with Win 2000
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pro hangs and takes awful long to reboot etc. Most windows program that are
installed hang up as well. I was advised to reformat and I plan to use XP
now. My question is whether to upgrade to Xp or make a clean install of XP.
If I upgrade, will I still have the unneeded files that maybe slowing down
my PC?
 
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My pc with a Penthium(R)4, 2.4 ghz, 130mb RAM. 37.3 gb HD
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with Win 2000 pro hangs and takes awful long to reboot
etc. Most windows program that are installed hang up as
well. I was advised to reformat and I plan to use XP now.
My question is whether to upgrade to Xp or make a clean
install of XP. If I upgrade, will I still have the
unneeded files that maybe slowing down my PC?
.
I recomend you to do a clean install. The upgrade is
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good if your programs are run fine, but in your case there
aren't.
 
Greetings --

I'd normally recommend an upgrade, but not in this case.
Upgrading a problematic OS is quite likely to perpetuate and
exacerbate your problems. Go with a clean installation of WinXP.

Bruce Chambers

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Have had your coffee by now? :o) If so, let us know if you remember. In my
cases, I have had no bad experiences from upgrading any Win98SE system
(personal in house systems) to XP and would still suggest it today to
anyone. Note: I didn't have any issues at the time at all, before or
after.
 
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