Quote Originally Posted by Quarks View Post
We did exactly that, jumped from Win98 to Vista SP1, the 64-bit "home premium" edition. New hardware, obviously, the old Win98 machine couldn't load & run Vista under any conditions.

We have had no problems with it other than the learning curve of figuring out how things are done differently between the two OS's.

We copied everything from the old hard drive to DVD & then created a "Win98 DVD folder" on the new hard drive & copied the DVD's down & have direct access to everything that was on the old machine.

Dumped McAfee (came with the machine) & have Norton 2007 running. Again, no problem with that combination.

Internet access is slow but then we're running 56kb dial-up so it's gonna be.

No huge fan of MicroSquish but, thus far, Vista has been OK.

That's part of my main problem,no disk burner on this old lap top,can write to the small floppy disks,this pc is a early win 98,I only paid $399 for the new lap top,2gb ram x 160gb hard drive Vista SP1,can't see putting all kinds of money in to it when I could probably return it and get a diff. one. Or maybe find some place to export the files to from the old pc and then import them into the new pc.

RayP.