Upgrading OS on a laptop?

[Boomyal]

I have a Toshiba laptop with a 337 MHZ PII MMX with a 192 mb of ram, running Windows 98. My wife uses it at her kitchen desk. For her birthday I just bought her an MP3 player/recorder and it says you need Windows 98SE.<br /><br />Can I upgrade the OS from your typical Win 98SE upgrade CD or should I look for something specific to laptops?

 

[TPD211]

Re: Upgrading OS on a laptop?

If you do all the microsoft updates for Win 98, you will have in essence Win 98SE.<br />Go to http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp for updates. <br /><br />You may have to reboot several times and do a lot of updates if you have not done any.

 

[mellowyellow]

Re: Upgrading OS on a laptop?

completely updated windows 98 is darn close to W2K ,<br />minus all the new hardware drivers...

 

[kd6nem]

Re: Upgrading OS on a laptop?

Triggr is right, there is virtually no difference whatsoever between the fully updated W98 and SE. Could be updated by CD if necessary, though. Or from W95 to SE.<br /><br />Mellow, I've made friends with 98, but we've had lots of fights, too. IMHO, w2k is an entirely different animal and is not close to w98 in any way. Mostly for the better, of course. XP much better yet. (MAN! I can't believe I actually said something nice about M$ in public!)

 

[ndemge]

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I still can't get mysefl to change to xp.<br /><br />too many "prettys"

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Upgrading OS on a laptop?

Originally posted by ndemge:<br /> I still can't get mysefl to change to xp.<br /><br />too many "prettys"

They have to throw something in that makes you think you are getting something for your money!<br />But you can revert all of the desktop appearances back to 'classic windows' style.

 

[ae708]

Re: Upgrading OS on a laptop?

I partitioned my harddrive and added XP. I just wanted to see if there was any difference. OH YEAH.. much better than 98SE. But I kept my 98 partition so I can still run all of my programs without worrying about compatability with XP.

 

[SlowlySinking]

Re: Upgrading OS on a laptop?

I'v been running XP on 2 computers at home for a couple of years, one is a laptop. Every program I had was compatible except for an old OpticPro flatbed scanner. XP is great when installing new hardware. Personally, I would never go back.