Do I qualify for a XP upgrade?

I think at one time DELL was giving free upgrades when a new operating
system came out. I have a DELL PIII T-450 and was wondering if I
qualify for an XP upgrade from Dell.

Thanks

LEESA

No. The only upgrades were for computers bought shortly
before the release of
windows XP. Form example the machine I bought on 5/1/01 did
not qualify,
while the one I bought on 8/1/01 came with a certificate to
get XP for $20.

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I think at one time DELL was giving free upgrades when a
new operating
system came out. I have a DELL PIII T-450 and was
wondering if I
qualify for an XP upgrade from Dell.

Thanks

LEESA

wrote:

I think at one time DELL was giving free upgrades when a new operating
system came out. I have a DELL PIII T-450 and was wondering if I
qualify for an XP upgrade from Dell.

Details, Leesa. Details.

When did you purchase the system?

What was the OS? How much memory does the system have?

Etc., etc., etc.

Notan

Oh my, I guess I don't qualify. I got my PC back in early 1999. It is
a Dimension T-450 PII with Win98se on it. I guess I'll be heading out
to Staples and shelling out the $80 bucks for the upgrade.

Thanks

LEESA (I)

Leesa,

I wouldn't do that. You're barely at the minimum. I'd suggest a clean
install of 98. It's a good operating system and will run more comfortably
on your machine.

Tom
wrote in message
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Oh my, I guess I don't qualify. I got my PC back in early 1999. It is
a Dimension T-450 PII with Win98se on it. I guess I'll be heading out
to Staples and shelling out the $80 bucks for the upgrade.

Thanks

LEESA (I)

wrote:

Oh my, I guess I don't qualify. I got my PC back in early 1999. It is
a Dimension T-450 PII with Win98se on it. I guess I'll be heading out
to Staples and shelling out the $80 bucks for the upgrade.

Again, how much memory?

Notan

Thanks... 256 mb of RAM.... BTW, the whole reason I am considering an
upgrade is because all of a sudden, I cannot start my computer.

When I start it up... I enter my password and it will load for a
little while then I get this error message...

The MSVCRT.DLL file is linked to
missing export NTDLL.DLL:RTLGetNTversionnumbers.

I Googled that and the fix is a little complicated. Evidently I need
to somehow get that file, and either put it on a floppy and install it
or I need to EXTRACT it from a Win98 CD.

Since I probably will be putting the XP upgrade on hold... I have a few
more questions.

1 -- Do I need to install BOTH of these files, or just the first one?
There seems to be conflicting information about this.

2 -- Can I extract these files from an XP disk, just in case I cannot
get ahold of a 98se disk? If I can... how would I go about extracting
it from an XP disk?

Thank You again.

Leesa

Notan wrote:
Again, how much memory?

From another thread, 256M.

I'm with Tom, it _can_ be upgraded but it's probably not worth it. $80
for the OS upgrade, $100 for more memory, $100 for a new hard drive,
and you are most of the way to a new low-end machine that's 10X as
good/fast the one you have today.

Save your lunch money till you can afford a new one.

wrote:
I think at one time DELL was giving free upgrades when a new operating
system came out. I have a DELL PIII T-450 and was wondering if I
qualify for an XP upgrade from Dell.

Thanks

LEESA

I'm going to thread jack, sorry Leesa.

Does Dell provide XP SP2 CDs to customers who previously bought a system with
XP or XP SP1?

James wrote:

wrote:
I think at one time DELL was giving free upgrades when a new operating
system came out. I have a DELL PIII T-450 and was wondering if I
qualify for an XP upgrade from Dell.

Thanks

LEESA

I'm going to thread jack, sorry Leesa.

Does Dell provide XP SP2 CDs to customers who previously bought a system with
XP or XP SP1?

Try Microsoft.

Notan