While on the phone with MS upgrade support, the start menu and tour
invitation suddenly appeared! XP had finally surfaced with Win98
wallpaper. Yesterday I had waited for a response for approximately 20
minutes without any prompts or indication of disk activity and had
done several reboots with the same result. The installation appears
fine and the computer is running XP well. I guess the lesson learned
for me is that patience is a virtue when upgrading.

Thanks to all who replied to my thread. I will save several replies
for next upgrade.

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:30:15 -0600, Ernie Moshurchak <erniem@shaw.ca>
wrote:

>Was attempting to upgrade Win98 to XP Home on a Compaq DeskPro EX
>computer as follows:
>Intel 667Mhz, 191Mb RAM, 35Gb available space.
>Upgrade completed without a problem and activated OK. On restart
>after XP loading and welcome screen, get a large Win98 emblem and
>computer becomes unresponsive except for task manager which showed CPU
>activity and running processes but no applications.