Re: NCR - computer question

From: "Keith P. Mears" <kthulu@COMTECK.COM>
To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM>
Date: Sun
2 Dec 2001 22:45:40 -0500

Okay, Nikki, despite the fact that I LOVE to bash your posts, I can actually offer some helpful advice here. I HAVE upgraded from WinME to Win98 (I REFUSE to think of it as a downgrade, because it ISN'T a downgrade), and unless you're prepared to do a clean install, you're looking at a formidable task. Actually, that's not totally true. If you have more than just a working knowledge of your machine, it's not all that hard, but because Win98 is the older version, it won't AUTORUN to do an install on a WinME machine. And you may well find that you lose a large part of your drivers after the switch as well. I eventually put WinME back on my machine and suffered through it until XP became available. Let me know if I can help.

----- Original Message -----

From: Nikki Rau

To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM

Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 6:44 PM

Subject: NCR - computer question

Okay..I need an opinion here..I borrowed a friend's Windows XP disk so I could upgrade my computer..yeah yeah I know technically its illegal..but oh well..anyway, it ran into some major compatibility problems with my computer..it wouldn't run my Norton Antivirus..no big deal, I can get something else...it wouldn't run my cd creating software..I use Easy CD Creator 4..no problem, I would have just had to upgrade to 5..but once I had XP installed..I tried to sign on, I couldn't, I went to check my modem properties..it said I had no modem installed, so i went to go ahead and install my modem, it wouldn't detect it at all...I tried everything I could possibly think of and nothing worked..according to XP, I have no modem on my computer...so in my aggrivated state, I uninstalled XP and got my computer back to the way it was before..so does anybody know why I would have such a problem..I even went to microsoft's website and I couldn't find any info...but I have decided that ME is just being a piece of shit right now all of a sudden..and I was thinking about downgrading to 98..I have a Windows 98 upgrade disk I used when I had my other computer. This computer came with ME on it. But will I be able to downgrade to 98 without any major problems? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

~Nikki~