I have never had that problem. Even with 95-98. It will always let me upgrade.

I installed the Full version of XP Pro over top of my Win2K pro with no 
problems.


At 11:04 AM 12/31/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Question - in the past, Microsoft has had this _asinine_ policy where if
>you spent _more_ for the Full version of an OS instead of just the
>upgrade, you couldn't use the full version to upgrade an earlier OS. For
>example, I seem to remember that if you had the full version of Win98,
>you couldn't use it to upgrade a Win95 install. This meant your only
>option was to try to backup everything by hand. (Yes, I know that's
>safer, but this still seems silly.) Anyway, does anyone know if this
>applies to WinMe-WinXP and Win2kPro-WinXPPro?
>
>-rc
>
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