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| From: Microsoft Software
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $74.95
You Save: $25.04 (25%)
New (27) Used (5) from $74.95
Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 219
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
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: Brand New, Factory Sealed In Retail Box, Perfect Condition, Fast Shipping!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Poor man's new PC August 10, 2005
JNG (California)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I am extremely pleased with this upgrade. Best $95 I've spent to morph my tired 5 yo system into a new one.
Installation was a breeze. I recommend you back up important file on the intended system drive (or partition), reformat it with NTSF and do a clean install. The upgrade set up will ask you what you want during the upgrade process. This give you a clean slate and won't carry over problems from the old system. Remember to have the previous system CD ready though to qualify for the upgrade. After that, XP upgrade will handle the rest. Activation on line is easy. With all the complaints flowing around on the internet I thought I have to surrender personal info. Not the case. All I had to do was hit the activation button. It was done before I knew it.
XP is definitely better than previous versions. I had USB device problems and virus/spyware programs interfering issues causing frequent blue screen of death. Not anymore. XP handles them beautifully. Plug in a wireless mouse, beep, it works. USB micro drives? Beep, it finds and installs the driver in a few nanoseconds. Hotswap devices (I have only one USB port)? No problem. It manages virus and spyware/adware scanners transparently and efficiently. Nobody is tumbling over nobody like when it was in 98 SE. All those previous issues all of sudden just GONE! I no longer worry when I have to add new software or hardware. The machine just handles them silently and smoothly.
Like all system building, high tech or otherwise, steep climb and rocky road precede smoothing sailing. Windows has reached that goal finally. Thank you folks at Microsoft for keep hacking at it. Good job.
WindowsXPHomeSP2 October 10, 2005
Scott J. Maddox (Bowie, MD USA)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
I had WindowsME, but something went wrong with my computer and it wasn't recognizing drivers for stuff so I got XP and that fixed all that because XP has all the drivers you need already included in it.
 Works OK but product keys are a pain January 1, 2005
"Happy" Customer (NJ)
12 out of 26 found this review helpful
The product key stuff is really annoying. You cannot boot the same partition image natively and under VMWare. It records this as different hardware when it's the identical physical partition and the same processor.
Requires a lot of care and feeding to make sure that patches are up to date and you need extra virus scanning software to deal with all the software bugs and vulnerabilities. All of these updates tend to fill up your hard disk. You have to know about the other options in cleanmgr to clean up all the system restore checkpoints.
I avoid running XP as much as possible. It's still not as stable as Linux. Even though you might see a lot of Linux patches too, there are many fewer than Windows if you're running your machine as a desktop and not using the Linux server capabilities.
Avoid the home edition of you have multiprocessor machines. It doesn't use them. You have to send more money to get the "Professional" edition for that to work.
The default user interface is the "Pretty" one. You have to dig through the settings to turn off all the pretty stuff to speed up the user interface.
 It Works January 15, 2006
R. M. Williamson (RIDGEWOOD, NJ United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
It works. I had Windows ME on my system the worst OS known to man. I did not strip the hard drive as all my friends in the know suggested. I just put the disc in and let her rip. It works. No more blue screen of death and no more crashes. On the other hand media player 10 is bad, very bad. But if you really want to know about that you should google it. I would do it again. rmw
Went very smooth July 23, 2006
P. Karmazin
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
I followed all instructions before I attempted to do an upgrade from Windows Me to Windows XP - infact, the more I read the more I was told to do a clean upgrade. So, I did a backup and removed programs that were not compatible and I got some instructions off the internet on how to do it and it went very smooth. I love what it gave me. Clean upgrade means a clean start - you remove everything and start with a new program.
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