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- Posted on Aug 22, 2010
Re: Is Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 compatible...
Installation checkup
If you already have a copy of XP in your hot little hands and you're not sure yet whether your system is compatible,
you'll find the XP Setup routine contains built-in compatibility checking. You can save yourself a lot of headaches if you:
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Read the compatibility report which is generated automatically
at the beginning of the installation and take note of its findings.
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Remove any items that are likely to cause problems. If the
compatibility checker finds any likely problems, uninstall or disable
any incompatible software and remove any incompatible hardware (if
possible) before continuing. Particular software to watch out for is CD
burning software, system utilities and antivirus software. Check the
manufacturers' sites for updated drivers and software and install
them before trying to run XP Setup once more.
And watch out for your USB hardware, as XP seems to be
particularly
finicky about which USB devices it will support. Once again, check
the
manufacturers' sites for updated drivers.
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Abide by any warnings from Windows. I deliberately ignored XP's
warning that the USB Smartcard reader
I installed was likely to cause problems. The result? A blue
screen of death, a series of reboots, and the forced removal of the
offending Smartcard reader.
(In fact, it gave me a chance to use one of XP's nifty features:
Device
driver rollback. Worked a treat!)
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