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Hi, i am newbye-bye and i am afraid to move in win XP OS, help me out. Now i am using Win 98SE and all works fine even most DOS games. I have SBLive! 1024 player sound card..does Win 98 drivers work with this card? How many Service Packs are there? Do i get all CRITICAL patches with those Service Packs? I don´t have net access in my home so... Is my computer GOOD gaming platform after moving to Win XP? Does those Service Packs solve most critical bugs? I mean, Win 98SE is enough, but how long developers support Win 98 that´s mystery. If i want to remove Win XP is this possible: I have CD ROM DOS drivers,I boot in DOS mode and delete Windows XP and reinstall it...or install Win 98SE, again. or is Win XP pro bootable from CD, so i just could delete all windows files from HDD and boot from Win XP CD and reinstall it. I heard that Win XP checks whole system and if i upgrade anything it won´t boot and i have to reinstall Win XP??? I can´t even change graphics card?? How about motherboard?? Is it must to go in net and register Win XP from there...i DON`T have net access in my home..or is there registration code like win 98 SE has?? I have planned to buy Win XP Pro thanks

thanks, i have looked patches in microsoft download section, there is Q######_WXP_SP1_x##_ENU.exe kind of files does that SP1 mean that this fix is part of service pack 1? how about those fixes where is SP2 instead of SP1?? Does this mean that Microsoft is planning Service Pack 2?? this might be obvious but i wanna be sure. thanks