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August 8, 2002 at 05:25 AM
jr0410

W2K CLEAN INSTALL vs UPGRADE

by jr0410 . Updated 24 years, 1 month ago

We have Win98 on most of our new workstations. We also use a Foxpro DOS database. Ever since upgrading from Win95 and slower machines, our database crashes and freezes. Foxpro and Windows error messages appear. The Windows error messages mention “illegal operations” and “executing invalid instructions”. The Foxpro messages are particular to that particular program. We decided to “upgrade” a few machines to W2K Pro to try to solve the crashing and freezing problems since W2K is supposed to handle memory issues better that its predecessors. We have found that “upgrading” to W2K does not solve the problems. However, a clean install of W2K does!! Is there anyone out there that knows why? If so, is there anyway to do an “upgrade” install and then tweak it to stop crashing?

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