>>>Thanks Hilmar,
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>>>Should I upgrade my Windows? First PC has Windows XP Home Edition and the second one has Windows 98SE.
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>>It should be possible to connect those, without additional upgrades. Just make sure both share some network protocol - for instance, NETBEUI, or TCP/IP.
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>>I recommend TCP/IP, since this is the standard protocol suite used on the Internet, you will need it anyway to access the Internet, and you really need nothing more.
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>>In this case, on your internal network, each machine should be assigned a unique IP address, for instance, 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 (IP addresses starting with 10 are in one of the ranges reserved for internal networks, so you won't have a conflict with public IP addresses).
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>Thanks again, Igor

Igor;

Hilmars advice is good and I would follow it. Here is a link in case you are interested in using Netbeui -

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/faq/default.asp#top

Look under Home Networks.

Tom