Frank Church wrote in
9.11:

OK, I finally got tired of bsods, lockups, illegal ops etc, etc. so I
upgraded to WinXP Home Edition today. So far, what I've seen I like;
the only fly in the ointment seems to be that windows open slower and
it takes noticeably longer to boot up and shut down. I'm used to
windows fairly snapping open with W98 (when it wasn't locked up, etc)
I have 512 megs RAM and an Athlon 1.2 gig processor. Am I gonna have
to go to a faster processor to kick this thing in the butt or what?
One small negative in this whole thing is my scanner software does not
work with WinXP..time for a new scanner I guess.

Frank Church
..'fishin' for help to keep this partly on topic

The only advice I can offer is to not do an "upgrade"from w98, but start
fresh with a clean install. Of course, you then need to reinstall all your
apps, and might have license problems that you need to deal with, but its
the only way to guarantee you're not bringing any old baggage along with
you.

FWIW, my XP Pro installation is tons faster on bootup than any NT-family
product I've ever used.

Scott