Stuart Ablett
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OK, I will swear this publicaly again.........
"My next computer system WILL NOT be a Windoze system, promise, cross my heart!!!!"
OK, now that I have that off my chest.......
So, I get the Win XP Pro trial download from MS, this is after running the "MS Upgrade Advisor" program, make that downloading and installing it, then running it.............
......... I get told that my computer passed with flying colors and is ready for XP
OK, I down load the 580 Mb ISO, burn that to a disc, stick it in the drive of my machine and it says............................
"This version of windows cannot be installed on this machine" ..........
Well poof me........what????
OK dig deeper, is seems that windoze in all thier wisdom have decided that they will ONLY offer the FREE TRIAL version of Windoze XP Pro x64, and if you do not have a 64 bit chip in your machine, well, you can't use this software.............
OK.......... why did the "Upgrade Advisor" not advise me of this.........
Bad words have been said, lots of them, most of the day.........
So I do some digging, and I find that if I install the SP2, I can run the XP Pro x64 on my x32 machine....... but I have to have XP installed to do so, I cannot run XP SP2 on Win 2K.......(where is the emocon for pulling your hair out, I'm tired of banging my head??).............So what exactly do I do now????????
I guess I could download the trial version of XP home, but that does not support multi lingual mode, like English and Japanese (you know, like Mac OSX does at the flip of a virtual switch).
If there is any kind soul out there than can shed some light on this subject, I'd be rather greatful.
Richard Leshner had already helped me out a ton, thanks for that Richard!
Add to that, I've been manning the L shop by myself from 10 AM to near on 11PM now, yep, just me, and I'm not had the best day..........
Freaking stupid computers..............
"My next computer system WILL NOT be a Windoze system, promise, cross my heart!!!!"
OK, now that I have that off my chest.......
So, I get the Win XP Pro trial download from MS, this is after running the "MS Upgrade Advisor" program, make that downloading and installing it, then running it.............
......... I get told that my computer passed with flying colors and is ready for XP
OK, I down load the 580 Mb ISO, burn that to a disc, stick it in the drive of my machine and it says............................
"This version of windows cannot be installed on this machine" ..........
Well poof me........what????
OK dig deeper, is seems that windoze in all thier wisdom have decided that they will ONLY offer the FREE TRIAL version of Windoze XP Pro x64, and if you do not have a 64 bit chip in your machine, well, you can't use this software.............
OK.......... why did the "Upgrade Advisor" not advise me of this.........
Bad words have been said, lots of them, most of the day.........
So I do some digging, and I find that if I install the SP2, I can run the XP Pro x64 on my x32 machine....... but I have to have XP installed to do so, I cannot run XP SP2 on Win 2K.......(where is the emocon for pulling your hair out, I'm tired of banging my head??).............So what exactly do I do now????????
I guess I could download the trial version of XP home, but that does not support multi lingual mode, like English and Japanese (you know, like Mac OSX does at the flip of a virtual switch).
If there is any kind soul out there than can shed some light on this subject, I'd be rather greatful.
Richard Leshner had already helped me out a ton, thanks for that Richard!
Add to that, I've been manning the L shop by myself from 10 AM to near on 11PM now, yep, just me, and I'm not had the best day..........
Freaking stupid computers..............