Will upgrading from Win98SE to WinME lose some of the features in WinME?

[AlphaIVT]

I heard that the FastBoot feature is disabled if you upgrade to WinME instead of clean installing WinME.

Would upgrading to WinME be the same as doing a clean install of WinME?





I know this is OT and should belong in the OS forum, but its already there, and I need quick help on this topic, thanks for understanding

 

[Warrenton]

No, because upgrades rarely leave everything working right. I'd just clean install. Plus a clean install doesn't have all the garbage that builds up over time

 

[Mday]

yep... clean install is always best. upgrading a clean install of win98 should go fine. there is no reason why not... (insert whatever MS joke you want).

besides, you can do a clean install from an upgrade CD, right?

 

[Tripleshot]

It will be much better if you do a clean install.Microsoft recommends it as well.At least that is what is being said at the oem techfairs Msoft is hosting.

 

[AlphaIVT]

My current problem is this:

I want to transfer all of my configurations and files from this 9gb HD to the new 30GB HD, but this HD is win98 and I want WinME on the new one.

So I thought, take everything from this drive over to the new drive and then upgrade it to WinME,

 

[dszd0g]

No matter how much you have installed it will be less work doing a fresh install. This is something a lot of people don't believe but learn with experience. I don't know how many times I've heard someone say that it would be too much work reinstalling everything they've installed. It would be even more work to fix everything they had installed after an upgrade.

Just a random trick a friend told me sometimes works when changing motherboards (I used to always do a fresh reinstall of Windows whenever changing motherboards) is to run regedit and delete the HKLM/ENUM tree and let it redetect all hardware. The second time he showed this to me it didn't work and he had to reinstall anyways (It for some reason deleted some of the files required for the mouse to work. We found it was missing vmouse.vxd, but we couldn't find the other missing files. I hate how Windows sometimes randomly deletes files that are needed). Thought I'd pass along a little trick for those that wouldn't reinstall anyways.

 

[hungrypete]

I originally (swapped alot of parts since then - several C: formats) upgraded from 98SE to ME, and I had asolutely no problems. I was amazed at how well everything migrated. Just my experience, and that installation only made it a couple of weeks before I swapped m/b and formatted. Try the upgrade!

 

[Propeye]

I ordered ME online for 60 bucks amd micrsoft pays the shipping.Ill get on the 14th same day it hiys the stores.My question is.....How did u guys get your copies allready??????????????

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[AlphaIVT]

My friend across the street bought a Compaq from BestBuy, came preloaded with WinME, He let me borrow the disc.

And Propeye, you wasted 60 bucks.

 

[fast_eddie]

at least Propeye isn't a f*cking thief!

 

[AngelOfDeath]

AlphaIVT:



<< And Propeye, you wasted 60 bucks. >>

That was a unneccesary statement. He bought the damn OS and you illigaly got a copy...:| :| :|

AoD

 

[hans007]

propeye still wasted $60 , winME sucks. Invest in win2k pro...

 

[StanTheMan]

I think an upgrade should be fine. The Win98SE that I have at the moment came from win3.1, and It runs fine now (win3.1, upgrade to win3.11, upgrade to win95, and then win95B, win98 and 98SE). Well, when I upgraded to win95B, windows refused to upgrade, so I just rename the file win.com to win.moc, and upgrade. Everything went fine