Mike,
I dont know how many of these you have done, but I was responsible personally to oversee 45 upgrades. From win 98 to 2000 (no me's) and a few 95 leftovers.
on a few machines, the upgrade went smoothly, others, Office stopped working, some just Outlook stopped working. Permission issues on files and directoryies were messed up all over the place with the upgrade.
the first one I did, was my home computer, and it went well. but after that. I found many reasons, to just format, and start from scratch.

That also gave the users a disk formated with NTFS, which will it can be done, during an upgrade, its really not a smooth or risk free thing to do.

I would have to agree, clean installs on win 2000 went quite smooth. Upgrades, UGH. ! Never again.
Bob Lee





>>Mike, you misunderstand. I'm referring to updates between versions of the OS, not support packs and security patches, etc.
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>I did misunderstand, but my point still stands. Upgrade Windows 98/Me or 2000 to Windows XP without doing a Clean install. Its slick, and very pleasant.