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Upgrading from '95 to NT question
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| jeanne 2000-03-31, 1:18 pm |
| I just took the practice exam on this site and received a question "Mary wants to upgrade from Windows '95 to NT. Wants to retain her desktop settings and applications." The answer that this site gave was to install NT in a separate directory and reinstall her applications. To me that doesn't make sense. To me retaining me no extra work. Since her desktop settings and applications are stored in '95s registry and both registries are incompatible, shouldn't the answer been, NO CAN DO? | |
| 2thetop 2000-03-31, 11:18 pm |
| yea...your pretty much right....
but when they say you have to reinstall the applications you are doing it from the oem cd not from the hard drive;assumeing all the applications that are on 95 will work on nt(yea right)
(but Microsoft doesnt want to sound like one product cant upgrade to another, so that why that is the answer)
i personaly would just back up the data and reformat...
but that question was on my exam and thats the answer i picked.... and there was not a a choice to say no it cant be done...
hope that helps...2thetop mcp
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| maracassunshine 2000-04-12, 1:37 am |
| Because of the differences in registries and in hardware device support, there is NO upgrade path from Win 95 to Win NT 4.0. Win 95 can be manually replaced with Win NT 4.0 by installing Win NT in a separate directory. No system or application settings will be shared or migrated. Each application MUST be installed after Win NT is installed. Additionally, after Win NT 4.0 has been installed, the Win 95 directory must be deleted. To dual boot between Win 95 and Win NT 4.0, applications must be installed twice, once for each operating system.
That is the official Microsoft explanation as per the Official Microsoft Course Materials that I use at my IT College. Happy Studying! | |
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| They Are Both Sorta Right but in combining both Answers Really there is no way to upgrade right from 95 to NT but by installing in a different directory you can transfer everything from Win95 (not much)but it sorta pretains to if you erased it off the HD then the Personalized settings and documents saved on the HD would be lost thus making install in a different directory correct.
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-Myke
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