Greg,

To be real honest, the words upgrade and Win98 do not belong in the same
sentence.  The best thing to do when installing Win98 is to do it from a clean
format of the disk if you can.  The upgrade carries the old registry along with
it, and a bloated registry tends to be a huge slowdown.

--
Doug Lumpkin
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"Gregory D. Fox" wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have just completed an upgrade on a customer's computer.
>
> Here's what we did:
>
> 1. Replaced Motherboard & CPU from a P150 to AMD K6-2 333Mhz
> 2. Added a new hd - from 540 MB to 6 GB
> 3. Added Ditto Zip Drive
> 4. Upgraded from Win95 SR1 to Win98
>
> I partitioned the hd into 4 partitions, transfer to data from the 540 MB to
> the 1st partition using DriveCopy.
>
> Completed the upgrade and converted the drives from FAT16 to FAT32.
>
> When I left the other day, everything seems to be working fine. He called
> the other day and complained that the system was responding slowly. I went
> down and made a few adjustments, then it seemed to be fine. This morning he
> called again and complained of the same thing. I told him it could possibly
> because of the upgrade from Win 95 to Win 98.
>
> I would appreciate any comments.
>
> TYIA
>
> Sincerely,
> Gregory D. Fox
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