Going from Win 2000 Pro to Win XP Home; Any problems?

[aic]

I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop with 850 Mhz and 32 GB 5,400 HD and a 32 MB ATI video card.

I believe that this is doable?

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Aside from that, as long as you back up everything then format, then install XP, you should be fine. One question...why XP Home, why not XP Pro? imo Pro > Home.

 

[aic]

Since I already have XP home I would use it. XP pro would ocst $$.

 

[Zucarita9000]

Just make sure you disable the bloated GUI (I belive it's name is "Luna"?). Stick to the Windows 2000 look and you'll be ok. You should be running at least a 1.5GHz machine in order to have the new GUI working properly without taking precious cycles from the CPU.

And the most important, HOW MUCH RAM?? XP can't really run properly without at least 256MB.

 

[clicknext]

No problems. The only thing is I don't think you can upgrade, you have to reformat and install.

Just make sure you disable the bloated GUI (I belive it's name is "Luna"?). Stick to the Windows 2000 look and you'll be ok. You should be running at least a 1.5GHz machine in order to have the new GUI working properly without taking precious cycles from the CPU.

It really doesn't take as much out of your resources as you think. It doesn't make a big difference unless you have like 64mb of ram or something.

And the most important, HOW MUCH RAM?? XP can't really run properly without at least 256MB.

It can run fine with 128MB. Of course the performance is better with more RAM, but I used XP on a 350mhz machine with 128MB of ram for half of this past year and didn't have any problems with performance except with the obvious things like 3d games, photoshopping, 3d studio max.