Todd said:
On a Point of Sale (POS) system I am trying to upgrade,
the software vendor states:
System Requirements
...
Compatible Operating Systems:
Windows XP Professional SP3, WEPOS (Windows XP Embedded for POS),
What is "Windows XP Embedded for POS" and where is it purchased?
(I have access to regular XP-SP3-OEM)
Windows XP Embedded
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_xp_embedded#Windows_XP_Embedded
WXP Embedded is minimalized install of that OS because, after all, you
don't need to run Hearts, Paint, Wordpad, and other bloatware on your
electronic cash register.
Depending on just WHAT you have for hardware for your POS terminal, you
could do a full install of Windows XP but I don't know if you can use an
upgrade version to move away from an embedded version. You might have
to buy a full retail or OEM version rather than an upgrade version.
You didn't say to WHAT you intended to upgrade or migrate. You're
posting in a Windows XP newsgroup, so why would you blow away the
Windows XP (embedded) on your POS for a full retail or OEM version of
the same Windows XP? Why would you want all that fluff on your POS
system? It's supposed to be for your business, not to play Solitaire.
Is the shop or jobber that built your POS device no longer in business
or no longer supporting what they sold you? Is that why you're doing
your own support and thinking of replacing a minimalized version that is
optimized for a POS system to wanting to add a lot of non-business bloat
to it? There's some logic missing and why I can't see why you are
trying to move from Windows XP to Windows XP.