Quote Originally Posted by RayP. View Post
Anybody ever make the jump from s Win98 computer to a Win Vista SP1 computer?,I spent almost 5 days trying to get this piece of modern MicroSoft technolgy to work,and it don't and won't,normally computer problems during set ups and so on are the fault of the user,but not this time,fortunately my oldest son was in town yesterday,he's a former programer,found there's a hitch in the mail program of Window's that is also effecting the ISP's mail program,conflicts with anything that's http:// related,I lost all my mail files and a whole bunch of stuff,flash stick wouldn't work on this PC so I couldn't save anything before hand,tired of horsing with it so I fired this old PC back up,tell you how crazy it is,no user manual with new PC,it's an electronic manual,and one trouble shooting answer they give is "if you can't connect to the Internet,go to your ISP's website and look for a download fix",that would be a good trick,I'll play with this this thing for another week and if it don't work I'll give it to one of the kids and look for a Win SX.

Ray
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.