Upgrade to XP?

Hi,

I am currently running Windows ME (don't laugh) and have been having a lot of problems with system crashes, especially when I exit a poker site. If I upgrade to XP, will I have to reinstall everything that I currently have on the system? What is the best way to accomplish this? Is XP worth the price of the upgrade?

Thanks in advance.
-Jay

[smoore]

haha! (sorry!)

I wouldn't upgrade, I'd clean install.
reinstall everything? yes.
best way? buy a geek dinner.
worth it? oh god yes assuming your computer can handle it. I ran it on a P3-500 w/360MB of memory just fine.

I agree with Smoore, definitely worth it.

Do you by chance have an external harddrive? if you have another computer in the house hooked up to a network, i would transfer everything to that computer temp. and transfer back when you finish installing XP.

also, i bought the PEM version of XP, essentially the same thing as retail except they dont have all the manuals, etc... still brand new and cheaper.

[smoore]

Good idea about the external hard drive. Everyone should own one of these. I use mine for hauling large amounts of files around to friends houses for sharing. I have never used it to back up someone's important files, but it'd work great for that. I see an 80GB on newegg right now for $50 after MIR.

edit: typo in the above post... PEM = OEM.

DO NOT BUY IT FROM EBAY if you don't know what you're doing.

oops, thanks for the correction. yeap, OEM.

I purchased mine from Newegg a couple years ago for $140. sweet price at that time.