Software XP Pro or Home

It really wont make much of a difference. They are mostly the same OS, just Pro has some extra features. I think microsoft.com has a list of the differences. Im using Home edition on my 86 and it works just fine!

XP Home or XP Pro?

SCOB has a good question because of all the road warriors and their experience contained in sagerforums.

I am also considering XP Pro. Of course my decision would have to be based on my current feet of expensive software for XP Home. Off hand would anyone know if migrating to XP Pro from XP Home would require updates, upgrades, or newer versions of software?

Man going from Win 98 to XP Home was incredible, not to mention expensive. I chose to give up several software titles and some hardware for this.

Thanks for any insight.

XP Home is pretty much the exact same OS for most users. Pro has alot of administrative garbage that you will most likely not need unless you're developing software, on a large network, etc etc.

IIS, for example, doesn't come with XP Home.

When I get my 8887 I would like to have a dual boot (WinXP and Win98se). I don't want to lose some of the stuff that works only with 98se. Anyone have a good link or experience having a dual boot system? I've never done it before and just wonder what some of the pitfalls may be. Thanks

Dual booting isn't much of a problem. The NT bootloader will make it pretty easy as long you're booting to another MS system .

Just out of curiosity what apps work in 98se and not XP?

Dual booting your system with 98SE and XP will be pretty simple, escpecially since you already have your 98SE installed. If you have a copy of Partition Magic, or you already have more than one partition, it will make it much easier. I have always found it simpler to place each OS on a different hard drive or partition. Since you have 98 loaded already, when you pop in your XP CD, whether you boot from it or put it in while 98 is running, choose NOT to upgrade, rather install a fresh copy of Windows. When it asks you where, specify either a different partition or different drive, whichever you have, and then let it load. If you only have a single partition, then you want to make sure you specify a different directory than the %systemroot%\Windows directory. You can call it what you want, WinXP would do.

By the way, a GREAT game that will not play on XP, GTA2!!

Hijack Pro - Installing will disable XP Home.
Phoebe USB Modem - Company says they will not have drivers. Too bad.
Adaptec 2930U SCSI host controller board. No drivers.
Plextor SCSI CD-RW - requires new controller
Plextor CD-ROM - requires new controller
Seagate SCSI II 18 gig drive - requires new controller
2 each Seagate SCSI LV 9.1 drives - requires new controller
Adaptec EZ-SCSI - Win Me or <
Easy CD Creator - Full upgrade.
HotMetal Pro 6.0 - Mostly a Corel problem as a result from purchasing it from SoftSquad. Many bugs.
Norton Internet Security - Full upgrade required.
Norton Utilities - Full upgrade required.
Norton - Winfax Pro - Full upgrade required.
Norton PC Anywhere - Full upgrade required.
PaperPort - Full upgrade.
Logitec Camera USB web camera - New drivers and software upgrade. Additional software useless.
Logitec VideoBusII - Dead in the water.
MS Spell - A small spelling plug in for NotePad and Word Pad. I always register and pay a small fee for the author.
Cyberkit - A neat ISP/TCP utility.
Corel Web Master Suite
Corel WordPerfect 2000 - No fix for many XP problems - Full upgrade to 2002.
HP 5 SCSI scanner - Drivers will not be updated - HP listed it under "End of life hardware".
Iomega Bernoulli 230 Mb SCSI drives. - Iomega gave me a deal on a 250 Zip. What does a guy do with 2 Bernoulli drives and 10 disks?
Snipper - A Windows based TSR that allows you to capture anything! Text, graphics, icons, then redirects them to ptr, filename, or target device.
CuteFTP Pro - Full software update.
Partition Magic - Full upgrade.

Some of these programs did actually work but the bugs were so bad I did not want to risk losing my data or slow down my work. They are memory hogs and just won't release your memory even with a good memory optimizer onboard.

The upgrades were expensive, the most being a new scanner, removing the Adaptec SCSI card and all SCSI devices. Sure some of these will work with a newer card but at the time not all had drivers or updates.

There are many more programs that just won't work but the above is my highlight. Some others I would have upgraded in time as well but when I migrated to XP from Win 98 SE on one machine, I was totally blown away with the lack of manufacture support.

nuf said...

I just checked Adaptic's site

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/sup...ows_XP_Support

It seems to mention that drivers for the 2930u are included on the XP disk??
I've got an old AHA 1505 ISA scsi card that came with my scanner that has no driver support under XP. But I am using it under XP in one of my computers. I just installed the latest ASPI layer for XP and the driver for the AHA 15XX series (but not for the 1505) and it, along with an old unsupported Nikon slide scanner with Win 98 software works fine. I think the ASPI layer was the key to getting it working. XP does not install one. Go figure.

I went back through my notes and correspondence with Adaptec support and as I remember now the 2930U SCSI adapter allowed me to boot and operate my devices at 20MBS and not the 80MBS on the LV side of the Ultra SCSI bus. What I encountered was very poor performance on the boot drive(s).

Without the enhanced drivers from Adaptec, my Ultra SCSI bus was reduced to SCSI - 1 performance and 7 devices, not 15. At that time (November 2001) Adaptec was not supporting XP and would gladly sell me another SCSI adapter that would work for me.

The Bernoullis were turned into Zip drives on the SCSI bus so all the neat Iomega stuff did not work.

SCSI to me is what USB/Firewire is to everyone these days except the bandwidth is much faster, more like ballistic with SCSI.

Since my falling out with SCSI I have still been able to use my hardware with a USB conversion kit from Adaptec called USB-Exchange, which works just fine and slow.

It was hard enough just doing the O.S. upgrade.