re: Clean install performance versus upgrade (from ME) Thursday, November 15, 2001 at 3:44 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ralph Wiggum (1 messages posted) I'm not one of those defrag nitpicky people. I upgraded XP over an old winME installation earlier and though it ran pretty well I had some errors. For unimportant reasons, I later formatted, installed ME and then upgraded immediately to XP. This installation boots up very quickly (tho not as fast as ME) and is pretty darn stable. I still get some of the same errors I got during ME (from unreal tournament), but on the whole things run faster and more stable under XP. I've heard lots of scary stories about people having trouble after upgrading non-clean installations. I'd really suggest a backup and format if you're gonna install XP. It takes an extra afternoon (depending on how many programs you wanna reinstall), but your system will be much cleaner and more sleek. Written in response to: re: Clean install performance versus upgrade (from ME) (Krezno: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 at 9:29 pm) Responses to this message: re: Clean install performance versus upgrade (from ME) (John: Thursday, November 15, 2001 at 6:00 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Clean install performance versus upgrade (from ME) (Xian: Wed, Nov 14, 2001, 8:34 pm) re: Clean install performance versus upgrade (from ME) (Krezno: Wed, Nov 14, 2001, 9:29 pm) re: Clean install performance versus upgrade (from ME) (Ralph Wiggum: Thu, Nov 15, 2001, 3:44 am) re: Clean install performance versus upgrade (from ME) (John: Thu, Nov 15, 2001, 6:00 am) re: Clean install performance versus upgrade (from ME) (Ray B: Thu, Nov 15, 2001, 9:07 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum