I bought my laptop with the ME system installed and a free upgrade certifcate withit for XP. I found some software was incompadable with the XP system and had to be replaced. You learn from your mistatkes right? Well, that's not all.I installed the service pack 1 and had no problems but when service pack 2 came out I had problems. An example is
I had to be in safe mode to run the virus scan and couldn't control the quarenteen feature of it. The solution was discovered when the Windows web-site said sp2
was not meant for Windows ME. This meant though I was using XP, I still was opperating the system with some ME. I still don't know if it would have worked right with just the XP system loaded. Compaq said it needed to be done this way. From this I figured if I upgrade it will be with the system already loaded on a desk top system. There should be better assistance if it goofs up.

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