Hi, im new to this forum and i have a question i need ergently answered..... 1st- i just got my computer fixed (windows 2000 professional) and i dont have internet at the moment(im using friends computer), and when i called up a certain internet company enquiring about their broadband they said that i needed to upgrade to windows XP which i am unsure if is abe to be done as, like i mentioned earlier, i have windows 2000 professional. If anybody could tell me if it is possible to get this upgrade i will be very grateful. Thanks for reading.... Gezza.

I'm surprised your 2000 runs decent at all with only 64MB of RAM. You definitely can't update to XP with only that limited amount of RAM. What are the specs of your machine? Most companies recommend a certain OS, but they don't require it. What company are you looking at for your ISP? Life's more painless for the brainless.

Is the ISP a cable provider or DSL? I would think that most any OS should work. You should have asked them if their system supports Macs or Linux machines. I think you may have gotten a newby tech person. That said, if they didn't mention WinXP SP2 then I would guess Win2000SP4 would be pretty much the same. As Jennifer mentioned more RAM would certainly help. Even 128MB would probably be OK.

Win2K will run quite decently on 32Mb RAM. If you use a small footprint web browser like K-Meleon, it works fine. You only get problems when you use memory hungry ones like IE and firefox. Just switch off flash and it runs even faster. Minimum speed for broadband is 233MHz. If it is faster than that it should be able to cope. If the service provider says you need XP minimum, it is possible they either don't know what they are talking about or the modem they provide only has XP drivers.

If the isp provides the service and ideally a router then no need of any additional drivers? I've not yet had to install drivers for any router I've used... Similarly for the usb-modem a friend has (and which was provided by his isp) he has required no additional drivers. Incidentally I have found that dsl is quite happy with a '98 system too, be it usb or router connection...; the Dell system cpu being in the region 600MgHrz. I wouldn't spend pennies upgrading to XP at this tme; possibly up the RAM a little to at least 128Meg - maybe more... but that's all...

I have run XP on a P3 350Mhz, 64 Megs of RAM. It was a little slow but it functioned normally. It was on a network and I used it mainly for internet browsing.

I have an elderly Dell box with most of the M$ OS installed...; it's a P-2/233;384Meg RAM. It chugs along fine on XP.... but obviously XP is happier on my more recent kit. When RAM (in he Dell) was 128Meg XP did chug a little slower but worked otherwise nonetheless...