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| From: Microsoft Software
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $89.99
You Save: $10.00 (10%)
New (17) Used (6) from $79.99
Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 197
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Color: 1-user
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Upgrade with SP2
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.9
MPN: n09-00985
Model: n09-00985
UPC: 805529831421
EAN: 0805529831421
ASIN: B0002423YK
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: New. Ships asap. Customer satisfaction is our goal. We offer a 7 day return policy on anything that is defective or grossly misadvertised. Make contact within 7 days and receive a full refund. You will also be reimbursed for the return shipping. There is a 15% restocking fee for all orders cancelled by buyer or returned non-defective. International/APO/FPO/PO addresses are welcome here. Bulk discounts are also available. Orders are shipped via USPS First class mail (1-7 days). Expediated is available on select items and are shipped via USPS Priority Mail (1-3 days). Larger items may be shipped via UPS Ground (1-6 days), insured. Tracking is available on UPS shipped orders. All orders are shipped within 2 business days from Iowa.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 86-90 of 90
 necessary upgrade September 2, 2008
R. Ferrer (The Big Apple, NYC)
Well, Microsoft has finally stopped supporting my old software. Go figure. Vista is not up to par so I upgraded to XP. Seems like the upgrade was easy enough. Although I did have to upgrade my memory as well so that XP would run efficiently. I recommend you have the maximum memory possible on you machine.
 Works, but may require patience. October 25, 2008
E.C. (Washington, D.C. (United States of America))
I used this to upgrade from Me. Follow the directions, and UNLESS YOU GET AN ERROR MESSAGE TELLING YOU THAT YOU CANNOT PROCEED, JUST LET IT RUN IT'S COURSE. FOR ME IT TOOK ABOUT 48 HOURS. After installation, you may get a two tone blue screen saying that it needs to check disks, if so, let it; this also took a long time (but was part of the 48 hours). A few days after installation, install XP Service Pack 3, to cover additional vulnerabilities. You may occasionally get that blue screen upon start up; if so, you can just hit the space bar within the 9 seconds to skip that disk check. Maybe sometime you don't actually need to use your computer you can start it up and let it do the disk check. Good luck. P.S. If during installation attempts you keep getting an error message that does not let you proceed, there are solutions posted on the net (just search the exact phrase), but I'm not sure any of those work. Hopefully, at least one time it will let the procees continue into the SLOW but eventually successful phase.
Upgrade to an existing OS only. October 25, 2008
D. Flak (North Carolina)
A friend of mine donated a computer to a charity. It was a system with a fractured Windows 98 system on it. I decided to upgrade it to XP, so I bought this product.
The documentation leads you to believe that you can do a clean install of XP even if there is no OS on the system. You can't.
The second best option is to do an install of XP over an existing OS, using the existing OS to boot up, but then using this CD to remove the old OS and install a fresh XP installation. You can't.
What I had to do was do a clean install of Windows 98 (luckily I have the CDs and the knowledge to do this) and then upgrade it using the XP CD.
So if you are looking for a clean installation of XP, this is not the product for you. However, if you know how to do a clean install of Windows 98, then this system will work for you.
 Upgrades are never as good October 31, 2008
Amazon8892
Generally speaking, to get the best performance from any operating system a clean install of a full version is recommended. The best choice is to choose a full version of the product and enjoy the benefits of not being left with artifacts and leftover's of your previous operating system which can lead to instability in certain cases. I would only buy this on a limited budget.
Win 2000 will NOT upgrade! October 31, 2008
Michael E. Fryer (Long Beach, CA USA)
I bought this to upgrade a Win 2000 pc because we bought a couple of new Ipods. This is not the right product, it did not even try to do the install. It looks like I will have to buy the full version for twice as much.
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