Fresh installs were the norm in my household. We never bothered with in-place upgrades between major versions of 95/98/98SE avoid cruft. Windows 2000 was abso

Fresh installs were the norm in my household. We never bothered with in-place upgrades between major versions of 95/98/98SE avoid cruft. Windows 2000 was absolutely the OS to have until MS tightened XP with SP2.