The Mrs works from home as an actuary, and their systems have been upgraded to require XP or Win 2000.
Thus she needs to install XP to replace the current win98SE on a bog standard evesham home PC.

I'm hoping for a fairly smooth upgrade, but had a couple of noddy questions:
Is there anything I should watch out for (eg modem/other drivers that I may need to download prior to the upgrade)?
Will the upgrade install XP alongside W98 (eg separate partition), or will it over-write the existing W98 installation?
Will her previous Office 2000 installation work happily under XP, need minor tweaks, or need a full install of Office XP?

Any help much appreciated (if I bollocks it up, her income stops, and more worryingly my nadgers get fed to the dogs)

Cheers

SB

#Will her previous Office 2000 installation work happily under XP, need minor tweaks, or need a full install of Office XP?


Office 2000 works quite happily on XP

and office XP works quite happily on 2000..

Basically I don't think you've got anything to worry about. XP will handle everything ;)

Excellent...cheers guys

Virtual pint to you all:

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#Is there anything I should watch out for (eg modem/other drivers that I may need to download prior to the upgrade)?

Not really XP has a huge amount of drivers with it, certainly enough to get u up and running - but generally worth backing up email, isp account settings, personal files...

#Will the upgrade install XP alongside W98 (eg separate partition), or will it over-write the existing W98 installation?

Basically overwrite it

#Will her previous Office 2000 installation work happily under XP, need minor tweaks, or need a full install of Office XP?

Maybe - u should check microsoft's website, it certainly should work.

Any help much appreciated (if I bollocks it up, her income stops, and more worryingly my nadgers get fed to the dogs)

If its that important buy an new hard disk (£50) do a fresh install ;)

[Edited by rjs1000 - 3/4/2003 9:57:10 PM]