Elizabeth,

If you can xcopy everything to the new drive BEFORE you upgrade windows,
that will take care of all but your first question.  I've never had good
luck trying to use the OEM as an upgrade, someone else can advise you on
that.

Win3.x did not have a registry.  Instead, applications relied on INI, CFG,
and DAT files for that type of information.  Unfortunately, a lot of app
developers from that era were completely undisciplined and they stuck
parts of the program all over the hard drive.  If you install Win95 on the
new drive and then try to move apps over, you will have an almost
impossible task of trying to locate all the bits and pieces of the
programs.

Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Boston <[log in to unmask]>


>Dear Friends,
>        Tomorrow I am going to upgrade a computer with
>Windows 3.1 to Windows 95. Since I am also
>replacing the hard drive, video card, and adding
>memory, I ordered the OEM version of Windows 95
>without thinking.
>        Now that I am thinking <g>, I have a couple of
>questions.
>

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