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Ummm, I hesitate to ask this, but I just (two months ago) got a Dell Inspiron 8100 with W2K Pro installed. It works like a champ, but I just received my upgrade to XP Pro. In light of the above, not to mention the hoops you have to jump through, is the upgrade worth it? I'm not a geek, but I do know my way around.

Any advice?

Merry Christmas to all!!

We have only ventured to install XP on one workstation. Actually, it was a Dell that came pre-installed with XP. There was some fuss with some programs at the beginning (and I think you'll find public opinion on XP evenly split, possibly tilted slightly to the hate it crowd), but it seems to be stable and working now.

HOWEVER, the damn machine is a 1.4 Ghz with 512 (I believe) of RAM. And to me it is slower than snot on a freezing doorknob. BH (the employee) thinks it is great because of what I see as some minor faetures, but there is no way on this world that I would put up with that slowness. Then again, I am not a "have a thousand windows" open person. I might have five at the most, and not for any length of time. BH will have a bagillion gagillion open, and with XP you really cant tell, because one IE browser will show in the task bar, but you may have 20 instances of it open. You click on that one (or mouse over it, not for sure) and a window pops up that shows all the instances. So, my data with XP might be skewed as I havent really told her to get off her workstation and let me test it out.

Regarding a clean install on an older machine, dunno. But my experience says never try an upgrade.

What kind of processor / ram? Also, 10k disks are not?

Any advice?

Personally, I'd only do it if I knew that a major problem I was having under win2k was only fixed under XP, or some program I needed to run would run under XP but not win2k - other than that, why bother? Upgrade installations suck, as has been noted, and a clean install means reinstalling all your software and moving all your data files over.

Unless there's a compelling reason, I generally don't bother. And for me, eye candy is not particularly compelling ;)