CS & XP Upgrade
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- mg33
Howdy,
For some reason I'm having a ton of computer problems lately. Running much slower than it did after I added 1GB of RAM. Restarting every day and nothing in the Event viewer to tell what or why. Just started recently and I'm curious if it's due to a recent Windows Update.
So, pondering a full clean upgrade to XP from Win2k.
I have a 2 Ghz Celeron I built in 2003 that's still doing me very well, and I wouldn't plan on building a new computer until Vista is out for at least a year and prices come down on certain components.I've upgraded before and done installs before, but I'm curious about Adobe CS and it's ridiculious security. Both licenses are used, one at work and one at home.
Is it possible to just move all my Adobe related programs/files to my storage drive, reinstall C with XP and move them back?
I remember this working long ago with PS 5 or 6, but things might be different now. I know plenty of programs can be moved around like that without needing a registry entry.
If I do upgrade I just want it to be as flawless as possible.
Any tips? Had these issues before? I appreciate any feedback you may have.
- acescence0
i think uninstalling with the windows add/remove programs control panel will give you your license back
- jaylarson0
and as for memory, make sure your memory is compatible with your hardware. some machines don't take ddr2, ddr, e&.
- mg330
Please, please sell me on upgrading to XP! Convince me!
I'll do it this weekend I swear!
- Rodimus790
download a program called crapcleaner.. you can find it on download.com. Run it, also check for junk in your startup through it and remove. run ad-aware. run antivirus (use AVG, free and uses less resources than McAfee or Norton... Norton clogs your system) You may have a Trojan. Check all your processes and get rid of anything unnecessary.
- radar0
if you do an OS upgrade you can just wipe the machine and she'll run like new, kinda?
- mg330
I do most of that. Virus scan runs once a week, and I have something like ad-aware.
But I'll give crapcleaner a try.
After a added 1GB of ram earlier last year it was nice and fast, I still keep at least 6-8 GB free on my C-drive and have a 160 GB hard drive for storage.
I remember how great it was to have a brand new computer - sometimes a clean install or upgrade is very nice.
- OeufOeuf0
I made the jump to XP from 2000 somewhere in 2005. Haven't looked back since. I usually just turn off all the XP crap and run in classic mode, i.e. looks/works sorta somewhere btwn 2000 and XP. Was no real reason for the jump other than me thinking that I should get with the times and some of my apps don't work on 2000 (Boujou, Premiere, etc.)
Unless you're going to adopt Vista on it's release, I would def go with XP. Again, my opinion isn't based on any technical reasons but rather getting with the times. I mean it is on Service Pack 2, that's about when M$ people should make the move, right?
- acescence0
with my win boxes, i'll get it running smooth and then use norton ghost to image the boot volume. i'll restore that and update it when necessary and re-image, so i always have a current image of a stable, fast system. things go wrong, just restore the image and it's like butter again.
- mg330
Can you explain further acescence? Why to do that and what you get from it?
I'm guessing it's to restore if something goes wrong?
I've had weird little problems for the past year.
- acescence0
yes, to restore if something goes wrong. i have an image of my box from the virgin OS install, and i'll re-image every time i install a new app or update the OS, so i can always roll back if things eff up.
it's especially useful at work, where i have to support 50 identical boxes. new employee starts, i just pop the image in and they have a virgin system with all the apps they need already configured.
- mg330
Interesting.
So let's say I upgrade to XP, get everything installed - then use that utility to have that version stored, with all software installed?
- acescence0
yes.
i have a boot CD that i'll start up from, and then i'll image the drive to a DVD. to restore, i'll do the same, start up from CD and restore the image from DVD to the drive. when you create the DVD image, you can add a restore-only version of ghost, so it's all self-contained.
you may be able to do it all on one DVD, instead of a separate boot CD and restore disk, depending on your hardware. the boxes I have can't boot from the DVD drive, only the built in CD, but yours may be different.